What exactly do you mean by it recognizes the account but does not seem to allow password auth?

Can you run “dfm user add -r GlobalFullControl <ldap user>”    (or whatever permissions make sense for this user)

If not, you should be able to configure /etc/nsswitch.conf to check if a local account exists look locally before going out to ldap.  It sounds like you might have been going down that trail already.

--JMS

From: toasters-bounces@teaparty.net [mailto:toasters-bounces@teaparty.net] On Behalf Of Edward Rolison
Sent: Tuesday, April 14, 2015 6:56 AM
To: toasters@teaparty.net
Subject: DFM LDAP auth/Linux

I've been setting up a new instance of DFM on Linux, and have started configuring up DFM. 

I've finally figured out why it's not been working though - it's because the 'CN' for all our accounts contains a bracket. 

CN=Full Name (unixID)

This leaves me in a bit of an irritating position. I can't change my account config across my active directory - at least not very easily. 

Can I do 'LDAP auth' via the local system somehow? I can log in to my DFM box as me, and when I add my user... it recognises the account. 
But it doesn't seem to allow a password auth (not unless I set a local account, which is a route that'll mean having to wrangle with security). 

Anyone else run into this problem or got a line of investigation?

(I have a ticket open, but this feels like the sort of thing that's irritatingly difficult to 'fix' on the fly).