Re: SOLUTION AD Account Verification

Yes, adding the account/pw parameters to DictionaryEntry did the trick.


Mark Aurit wrote:
> I have a web service that interrogates the corporate active directory;
> it uses the domain  acccount (via IIS Windows Integrated Security) as
> the "key".
>
> Now I need to abstract it a level higher for the non-MS
> browsers/platforms (or a level lower, depending on where you stand in
> the religious wars :-); in that case they need to supply both the domain
> account AND password that Im to verify against AD.
>
> I believe one way is to pass the account and the password as parameters
> to Directory entry and try ... catch it.
>
> Can anyone provide any help on this?  Thanks much!
>
> // current "pseudo code" in working web service
> public void GetAccount(string <domain account to lookup>,string <ldap
> server>)
> {
> string ldapDomain="LDAP://"+<ldap server>;
> System.DirectoryServices.DirectoryEntry adEntry = new
> System.DirectoryServices.DirectoryEntry(ldapDomain);
>
> System.DirectoryServices.DirectorySearcher adSearcher = new
> System.DirectoryServices.DirectorySearcher(adEntry);
>
> adSearcher.Filter = ("(anr="+<domain to lookup>+")");
> System.DirectoryServices.SearchResult adResult=adSearcher.FindOne();
> }
>
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