ldap-authentication. Get no page whatever I enter

[Klaus T Füller <Klaus.Fueller@T-Online.de>]

Hi everyone,

I've got a strange behaviour of Apache2 concerning LDAP-authentication.
I configured a directory with

                AuthType Basic
                AuthBasicProvider ldap
                AuthName "test"
                Require valid-user
                AuthLDAPUrl ldap://localhost:389/dc=gcls,dc=priv

The result: I can't authenticate although the password works to login  
to my linux-box. Even stranger:

I enter a wrong password. Apache writes in error.log:

[warn] [client 84.138.218.39] [28447] auth_ldap authenticate: user  
kfueller authentication failed; URI /x [ldap_simple_bind_s() to check  
user credentials failed][Invalid credentials]
[error] [client 84.138.218.39] user kfueller: authentication failure  
for "/x": Password Mismatch

I enter the correct password:

Apache issues no error-message. I therfore assume that LDAP correctly  
checks the password.

In both cases (wrong and correct password) apache2 writes in it's  
access.log:

84.138.218.39 - kfueller [29/Nov/2006:22:16:14 +0100] "GET /x HTTP/ 
1.1" 401 589 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; de-de)  
AppleWebKit/418.9.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/419.3"

Has anybody any idea what's going on.

PS Binding to LDAP with a password doesn't change anything.

Desperate greetings

Klaus