LDAP connection with authentication

[sielaff-it-ilmenau]

Hello folks,

It is very nice that there is another SIP client in the Linux world, and one with few additional functions that are often not needed for simple telephone calls.
The company I work for would like to use this nice piece of software in the service area - but there is still a problem with the LDAP connection for the contacts. We currently use simple authentication with a special user name and password.
Is there a way to build in a separate authentication option for the LDAP connection? - I have tried it via the ldap:// - URI, but without success. Perhaps you also know a possibility that I have overlooked so far.

[Mik-]

Hello @sielaff-it-ilmenau ,
I'm happy to here you're fiddling around with GOnnect.

Currently binding a LDAP server is not supported. As we are using the OpenLDAP library this should not be so hard.
I will take a look and discuss internally, if we can implement this.

PS: Pull requests are always welcome 😉

[Mik-]

Hello @sielaff-it-ilmenau ,
we had some discussions in the dev team and we could implement a "simple bind" auth method for LDAP.
There would be a bind DN in the config file and GOnnect will ask one time for a password, e.g. on startup. The password would be saved to the password store, like the one for CardDAV auth.

Could this be a solution that works for you?

[sielaff-it-ilmenau]

Hello @Mik-,
that would be just great, the "simple bind" auth method will do.

Thank you very much!