Re: python-ldap, Zope, and NDS

[Timothy W. <wi...@vi...>]

On Sun, 25 Jun 2000, Michael [iso-8859-1] Ströder wrote:

> > Python 1.5.2 (#0, Apr  3 2000, 14:46:48)  [GCC 2.95.2 20000313 (Debian
> > GNU/Linux)] on linux2
> > Copyright 1991-1995 Stichting Mathematisch Centrum, Amsterdam
> > >>> import ldap
> > >>> l = ldap.open("206.131.108.2",389)
> > >>> l.simple_bind_s("ou=do,o=isd_197","")
>                        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> Please read the doc of ldapmodule again. The DN is meant for binding
> as this object (e.g. an entry describing a user) and is used for
> authentication/authorization. If doing a anonymous bind you can
> simply use an empty DN.

Aha! Changing to l.simple_bind_s("", "") makes everything work fine. (At
least as far as my simple example goes.) I will go through the source for
ZLDAP and try to determine how it's being done there.

-Tim

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