(RADIATOR) LDAP Connection

[Hugh Irvine]

Hello Jaskaran -

Radiator should disconnect after each request.

 From section 6.35.16 in the Radiator 3.6 reference manual:

6.35.16        HoldServerConnection

By default, AuthBy LDAP, LDAP2 and LDAPSDK will disconnect from the 
LDAP server after each authentication. This is because not all LDAP 
servers permit multiple searches from the same LDAP connection. The 
HoldServerConnection optional parameter forces AuthBy LDAP to hold the 
connection to the LDAP server up for as long as possible. Only some 
LDAP servers support this behaviour (notably University of Michigan, 
Netscape and Open Directory), but for those servers it can improve 
performance. If you enable this parameter and you start to get odd 
behaviour from your AuthBy LDAP, you are probably using an unsupported 
LDAP server, and you should not use this parameter on it.

# We are using UMich
HoldServerConnection

If you are having problems, please send me a copy of the configuration 
file and a trace 4 debug from Radiator showing what is happening.

regards

Hugh



On Friday, May 23, 2003, at 00:15 Australia/Melbourne, jsingh wrote:

> Hi Mike
>
>  Why doesn’t the radiator drop the connection to the LDAP server once 
> it is done authenticating the user?
>
> Thanks
>
> Jaskaran Singh
>
> University Systems & Security
>
> FairleighDickinsonUniversity
>
> Teaneck,NJ07666
>
>  
>
>

NB: have you included a copy of your configuration file (no secrets),
together with a trace 4 debug showing what is happening?

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