Bug 55604

Summary:	LDAP password authentications sends NULL
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Need Real Name <greg>
Component:	netscape	Assignee:	Bill Nottingham <notting>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	David Lawrence <dkl>
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	7.1	CC:	pirozzi.giuseppe, rvokal
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Hardware:	i586
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://yolinux.com/TUTORIALS/LinuxTutorialLDAP-BindPW.html#NETSCAPE
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Description Need Real Name 2001-11-02 19:55:06 UTC

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.3-12 i586)

Description of problem:
See web page above for a better description.
Problem diagnosed with ethereal packet sniffer.
When attempting to access an LDAP server which requires User ID/Password,
Netscape propts for these values but attempts to bind with NULL for both
values.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Confihgure OpenLDAP server. See:
http://yolinux.com/TUTORIALS/LinuxTutorialLDAP.html#EXAMPLE
2. Add security requiring login. See:
http://yolinux.com/TUTORIALS/LinuxTutorialLDAP-BindPW.html
3.Attempt to bind to LDAP server. See:
http://yolinux.com/TUTORIALS/LinuxTutorialLDAP-BindPW.html#NETSCAPE
	

Actual Results:  Fails to bind to LDAP server.

Expected Results:  Expect to bind to LDAP server with UserID/password.

Additional info:

Problem is with Netscape 4.77 which binds using NULL (anonymous). User ID
and PAssword are not sent. I verified with Ethereal packet sniffer.

Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 2001-11-02 20:04:54 UTC

Please report this to netscape at:

http://help.netscape.com/forms/bug-client.html

We don't have the source code for netscape; we can't fix it.

Comment 2 Pirozzi Giuseppe 2005-12-17 05:33:15 UTC

(In reply to comment #1)
> Please report this to netscape at:
> http://help.netscape.com/forms/bug-client.html
> We don't have the source code for netscape; we can't fix it.

Hi Bill,
is there a workaround for this bug ?
did you resolve ?

Thanks

Comment 3 Bill Nottingham 2005-12-17 06:44:17 UTC

Please reread comment #1 - there is nothing RH can do. Note that there really is
no reason to be using the netscape browser these days.