Authentication of portal users with uid on oid/ldap

Question

All works fine with authenticating users created on DAS that have
dn: cn=%LDAP_USER%,cn=users,dc=edmunds,dc=com
When I migrated user to portal schema, the auth fails. The portal schema has user dn string
uid=%LDAP_USER%, ou=people, dc=edmunds, dc=com
I got this dn string from export to ldif file. The portal user can log in to DAS.
We are using HTMLdb 1.6 and I used
LDAP Host[LDAP Test Tool] at /htmldb/f?p=4000:802 to test the parameters.
How to make this uid dn work with AppEx?
Thanks.

Answer 1

Kenny,
I would forget about using the is_member function for authentication until you achieve what you need directly with dbms_ldap. You can experiment with an anonymous block in SQL*Plus starting with this sample code until you can get the simple_bind_s to work with your parameters:set serveroutput on
declare
    l_retval      pls_integer;
    l_retval2      pls_integer;
    l_session     dbms_ldap.session;
    l_ldap_host   varchar2(256);
    l_ldap_port   varchar2(256);
    l_ldap_user   varchar2(256) := 'FIRSTNAME_LASTNAME'; -- enter username in this format
    l_ldap_passwd varchar2(256) := 'PASSWORD';           -- enter password
    l_ldap_base   varchar2(256);
begin
    l_retval                := -1;
    dbms_ldap.use_exception := TRUE;
    l_ldap_host               := 'ldap-host.some-domain.com';
    l_ldap_port               := '389';
    l_ldap_user               := 'cn='||l_ldap_user||',l=amer,dc=oracle,dc=com';
    l_session := dbms_ldap.init( l_ldap_host, l_ldap_port );
    l_retval  := dbms_ldap.simple_bind_s( l_session, l_ldap_user, l_ldap_passwd );
    dbms_output.put_line( 'Return value: ' || l_retval );
    l_retval2  := dbms_ldap.unbind_s( l_session );
    exception when others                                                                                                  
     then 
          dbms_output.put_line (rpad('ldap session ',25,' ')  || ': ' ||
               rawtohex(substr(l_session,1,8)) ||     '(returned from init)');
          dbms_output.put_line( 'error: ' || sqlerrm||' '||sqlcode );
          dbms_output.put_line( 'user: ' || l_ldap_user );                                                        
          dbms_output.put_line( 'host: ' || l_ldap_host );
          dbms_output.put_line( 'port: ' || l_ldap_port ); 
          l_retval  := dbms_ldap.unbind_s( l_session );
end;
/Scott