Bind() question for users in different OU's

[Padraig R. <rya...@it...>]

Hi,

We're using MS AD to authenticate users for some of our web based apps using
bind() where we get the user to enter their UID and Password on a web form
and then perl uses this info coupled with the search base info from a config
file to actually do the bind and authenticate the user.

Q. Is it possible to bind without knowing the particular ou that a user
belongs to ?

For example we have one ou for staff and another for students yet we won;t
know whether it's a staff member or a student logging in and so in our Perl
we have to do 2 binds, one for each ou to actually authenticate. This slows
up the whole process.

Any help appreciated. Thanks.

Padraig.
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