LDAP Authentication problem

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Well i installed jforum on tomcat server and its working fine... now there is a small problem.... i hav integrated LDAP authentication......... it works is the sufix is complete.....
i mean it requires the complete dn to authenticate the user... like there is an 'OU' below another 'OU' i hav to hav them both in the suffix...... only after that i can log in......can anyone help me as to how to aoid it so that.... i use only one 'OU' in the sufix....but it searches for the user in all the 'OU's below it???
[originally posted on jforum.net by sourav.bardhan]

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The supplied LDAPAuthenticator code just creates a FQDN from the supplied user id and tries to get the attributes of the LDAP node pointed to by the FQDN. If it can't, it assumes the user doesn't exist.

You would need to modify this code to so that the DirContext object (dir) does a search of all nodes below your top node. Then process the found nodes appropriately. (deal with duplicates, not found, singleton).
[originally posted on jforum.net by monroe]