What version are you running?
1.5.6
What steps will reproduce the problem?
When authenticating by LDAP against a windows domain controller, using an "anonymous user", the search operation fails if the ldap server replies with a referral.
See http://www.python-ldap.org/faq.shtml, question 12 for more details.
I've fixed this by adding
ldapo.set_option(ldap.OPT_REFERRALS, 0)
in backends.py:LDAPBackend.authenticate and LDAPBackend.get_or_create_user (just after setting protocol version).
Maybe a better fix would be to set this only if LDAP_ANON_BIND_UID is set.
What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
This is the logged error message:
2011-09-14 09:03:17,800 - WARNING - LDAP error: {'info': '000004DC: LdapErr: DSI
D-0C0906DD, comment: In order to perform this operation a successful bind must b
e completed on the connection., data 0, v1772', 'desc': 'Operations error'}
What operating system are you using? What browser?
Gentoo linux.
