Testing your LDAP setup

Owned by Rashmi Likhite
Last updated: May 29, 2015
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Celoxis LDAP Quest is a java program to debug connection and authentication issues with an LDAP server. First, it connects to an LDAP server and authenticates using the specified admin DN and password. If successful, tries to connect as the specified combination of end-user and password.

Download

Click here to download the zip file.

This program should be run on the same machine where Celoxis is running, not on the machine that runs your LDAP server.

Usage

  1. Unzip the ldap-quest.zip file. It should create a folder that contains the LDAPQuest.class file.
  2. Open a terminal window on Unix/Linux OR Command prompt in Windows.

  3. Go to the folder (cd ldap-quest) that contains the LDAPQuest.class file and then type:

    java LDAPQuest <ldap-url> <admin-DN> <admin-password> <ldap-search-attr> <base-dn> <username> <password>

    You will receive a success message if the connection and details were correct.  If the connection fails and you don't understand the output simply send us the output.

Note:                

    1. For Microsoft Active Directory Service, ldap-search-attr should always be sAMAccountName
    2.  If any of the program arguments (e.g. password), contains a space or special characters, enclose it within single quotes. 

Examples

 

Connect to Celoxis Active Directory
$ java LDAPQuest ldap://ldap.celoxis.com cn=Administrator,cn=users,dc=celoxis,dc=com kaboom1 sAMAccountName cn=users,dc=celoxis,dc=com Joe joeIsKing1

1) Trying to connect to LDAP and bind as Admin...
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
SUCCESS: Admin authenticated successfully.

2) Trying to authenticate end user...
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Searching for Joe in cn=users,dc=celoxis,dc=com
FOUND DN: CN=Joe,CN=Users,DC=celoxis,DC=com

3) Connecting as CN=Joe,CN=Users,DC=celoxis,DC=com with specified password...
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
SUCCESS: Joe authenticated successfully.

 

 

$ java LDAPQuest ldap://ldap.celoxis.com 'cn=Marcia Overstrand,cn=users,dc=celoxis,dc=com' kaboom1 sAMAccountName ou=Sales,dc=celoxis,dc=com Joe joeIsKing1

1) Trying to connect to LDAP and bind as Admin...
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
SUCCESS: Admin authenticated successfully.
2) Trying to authenticate end user...
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Searching for Joe in ou=Sales,dc=celoxis,dc=com
FOUND DN: CN=Joe,OU=Sales,DC=celoxis,DC=com
3) Connecting as CN=Joe,OU=Sales,DC=celoxis,DC=com with specified password...
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
SUCCESS: Joe authenticated successfully.

 

 

Connect to a public LDAP server
$ java LDAPQuest ldap://ldap.forumsys.com cn=read-only-admin,dc=example,dc=com password uid dc=example,dc=com euler password

1) Trying to connect to LDAP and bind as Admin...
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
SUCCESS: Admin authenticated successfully.

2) Trying to authenticate end user...
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Searching for euler in dc=example,dc=com
FOUND DN: uid=euler,dc=example,dc=com

3) Connecting as uid=euler,dc=example,dc=com with specified password...
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
SUCCESS: euler authenticated successfully.