Webapp and LDAP authentication

[Roby Kappa]

Hi,

I'm trying to authenticate user and password in a form of my web application on LDAP server.

For do this, I wrote:

Hashtable<String,String> env = new Hashtable<String,String>(4);
env.put(Context.INITIAL_CONTEXT_FACTORY, "com.sun.jndi.ldap.LdapCtxFactory");
env.put(Context.PROVIDER_URL, "ldap://......:389/DC=.....,DC=....");
env.put(Context.SECURITY_PRINCIPAL, userid);// User
env.put(Context.SECURITY_CREDENTIALS, password);// Password

try {
new InitialDirContext(env);
log.info("User " + userid + " authenticated in LDAP mode");
} catch (AuthenticationException e) {
log.error("User " + userid + " authentication failed");
}

It works... BUT only for a few users! For others, existent and with valid password, the code throws an exception!

Access to Context is the same thing to verify password correctness? If they are different, I need another piece of code for the second thing?

Thanks