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| author | Sergei Nikulov <snikulov@users.noreply.github.com> | 2017-05-24 01:03:29 +0300 |
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2017-05-24 01:03:29 +0300 |
| commit | 63cd0d60ea24a7c7de4289a4240d40fa4ac46ff2 (patch) | |
| tree | 177746b22668f64285a4e77530f2ca682d7fc787 /docs/MANUAL | |
| parent | bba59073c52e6dd00ddc18e0e40d1f7dfc1c9315 (diff) | |
LDAP: documentation update per #878 changes (#1506)
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diff --git a/docs/MANUAL b/docs/MANUAL index 0ea3e61f4..330f99aea 100644 --- a/docs/MANUAL +++ b/docs/MANUAL @@ -815,6 +815,10 @@ LDAP If you have installed the OpenLDAP library, curl can take advantage of it and offer ldap:// support. + On Windows, curl will use WinLDAP from Platform SDK by default. + + Default protocol version used by curl is LDAPv3. LDAPv2 will be used as + fallback mechanism in case if LDAPv3 will fail to connect. LDAP is a complex thing and writing an LDAP query is not an easy task. I do advise you to dig up the syntax description for that elsewhere. One such @@ -830,6 +834,20 @@ LDAP If I want the same info in HTML format, I can get it by not using the -B (enforce ASCII) flag. + You also can use authentication when accessing LDAP catalog: + + curl -u user:passwd "ldap://ldap.frontec.se/o=frontec??sub?mail=*" + curl "ldap://user:passwd@ldap.frontec.se/o=frontec??sub?mail=*" + + By default, if user and password provided, OpenLDAP/WinLDAP will use basic + authentication. On Windows you can control this behavior by providing + one of --basic, --ntlm or --digest option in curl command line + + curl --ntlm "ldap://user:passwd@ldap.frontec.se/o=frontec??sub?mail=*" + + On Windows, if no user/password specified, auto-negotiation mechanism will + be used with current logon credentials (SSPI/SPNEGO). + ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES Curl reads and understands the following environment variables: |