ldapjs authentication error when binding to LDAP server

Question

I have issue on connecting to LDAP server using ldapjs lib. For some reason I cannot bind to ldap server using my credentials:

var ldap = require('ldapjs');

function authDN(dn, password, cb) {
    var client = ldap.createClient({url: 'ldaps://myserver:1234'});

    client.bind(dn, password, function (err) {
        client.unbind();
        cb(err === null, err);
    });
}


function output(res, err) {
    if (res) {
        console.log('success');
    } else {
        console.log('failure' + err.message);
    }
}

// should print "success"
authDN('CN=J33nn,OU=Members,DC=domains', 'password', output);
// should print "failure"
authDN('cn=user', 'badpasswd', output);

To be perfectly sure I've checked my dn in LDAP and tested binding to LDAP using python script and it worked.

Any ideas what's wrong?

Answer 1

Maybe the username format is wrong or your DN is not correct, instead of

CN=J33nn,OU=Members,DC=domains

Try using:

[email protected]

Or you should use a LDAP exlorer tool to check your real/correct DN name by bind to your LDAP server.