Accessing Portal LDAP with(out) UserManagement API

[Former Member]

Hi,

i would like to check from a non-portal applikation the user-data and especially the password of the user in the EP5 Portal LDAP. What is the easiest way to check for the password?

I wonder when i use JNDI (sun) if i can check the password correctly since its encrypted in LDAP and i don't know how it's done (md5?, key?...).

Has anybody done anything similar? Did you do it by using the usermanagement API or simply via JNDI? If you maybe could add some sample code of how to check for the password i would be very glad.

thanks

stefan

[Former Member]

Here is a snippet of code from an EP5 iView I wrote a long time ago...:

public void onChange (Event event)

throws PageException {

state = RESULT_STATE;

Hashtable env = new Hashtable();

InputField userid = (InputField) getComponentByName("userid");

InputField password = (InputField) getComponentByName("password");

m_request = (IPortalComponentRequest) getRequest();

IUserManagementService us = (IUserManagementService) m_request.getService("usermanagement");

IPortalComponentProfile userProfile = m_request.getComponentContext().getProfile();

boolean isADS = false;

String getDC = userProfile.getProperty("useADS");

if (getDC != null && (getDC.equalsIgnoreCase("yes") || getDC.equalsIgnoreCase("true"))) {

isADS = true;

}

String authSvr = userProfile.getProperty("LDAPHost");

String root = userProfile.getProperty("LDAPOrg");

if (authSvr == null || authSvr.length() == 0) {

IRepositories reps = us.getRepositories();

IRepository rep = reps.getRepository("Corporate Authentication Server");

authSvr = "ldap://" + rep.getServer(0) + ":" + rep.getPort(0);

root = rep.getRoot(0);

}

String sPrincID = userProfile.getProperty("LDAPPrincipal");

if (sPrincID == null || sPrincID.length() == 0) {

sPrincID = "cn";

}

String sUser = userid.getValueAsDataType().toString();

String sPassword = password.getValueAsDataType().toString();

mLogin = us.getAuthenticator();

if ((user = mLogin.getLoggedInUser(m_request.getServletRequest(), m_request.getServletResponse(false), null)) == null) {

passwordCheck = false;

return;

}

if (isADS==true || sUser.equalsIgnoreCase(user.getId())) { // did they get the ID correct?

StringBuffer sPrincipal = new StringBuffer();

if (isADS==true) {

sPrincipal.append(sUser); // ADS

} else {

sPrincipal.append(sPrincID.concat("="));

sPrincipal.append(sUser);

sPrincipal.append(", ");

sPrincipal.append(root);

}

if (env.isEmpty()) {

env.put(Context.INITIAL_CONTEXT_FACTORY, "com.sun.jndi.ldap.LdapCtxFactory");

env.put(Context.PROVIDER_URL, authSvr); // Other

if (isADS==true) {

env.put(Context.SECURITY_AUTHENTICATION, "simple");

}

env.put(Context.SECURITY_PRINCIPAL, sPrincipal.toString());

env.put(Context.SECURITY_CREDENTIALS, sPassword);

}

try {

DirContext ctx = new InitialDirContext(env);

// if we got here, everything is OK...

passwordCheck = true;

StringBuffer err = new StringBuffer();

err.append("Autheticated user principal:");

err.append(sPrincipal);

err.append("; pass=" + sPassword);

err.append(";ldaphost=" + authSvr);

result = err.toString();

m_request.getLogger("iview_logger").info("AuthCheckPage: Authcheck OK: " + result);

} catch (NamingException e) {

StringBuffer err = new StringBuffer();

err.append(" Failed to autheticate user principal:");

err.append(sPrincipal);

err.append("; pass=" + sPassword);

err.append(";ldaphost=" + authSvr);

err.append(";error = " + e.toString());

String reason = e.getExplanation();

if ( reason != null && reason.indexOf("error code 49") != -1 ) {

//Invalid password

err.append("WARNING, USER PROVIDED INCORRECT PASSWORD");

} else if ( reason != null && reason.indexOf("password expired") != -1 ) {

err.append("WARNING, USER HAS EXPIRED ACCOUNT");

} else {

err.append(e);

}

result = err.toString();

m_request.getLogger("iview_logger").warning("AuthCheckPage: Authcheck failed: " + result);

failedCheck = true;

passwordCheck = false;

}

} else {

failedCheck = true;

passwordCheck = false;

result = "User ID is not the same as the logged in user";

}

}