From 5a8b72fa2598731209a6c094a7709d365252d29f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Patrick Spencer Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2021 00:42:33 -0600 Subject: [PATCH] Added comments to reflect the changes on 09/17/2021 --- ldapserver/README.md | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/ldapserver/README.md b/ldapserver/README.md index 6079acc..da77722 100644 --- a/ldapserver/README.md +++ b/ldapserver/README.md @@ -17,3 +17,8 @@ That means you have the right to study, change, and distribute the software and ## Acknowledgements Thanks to Pat S for all his help integrating with Active Directory. + +## Changes + +09/17/2021: An error in the LDAP functionality was discovered when the proposed user name exceeded 20 characters. Unfortunately Active Directory has this limitation in the length of the sAMAccountName attribute in order to provide backward compatibility to pre-win2000 calls. +It was realized that an assumption had been made that the login name and the sAMAccountName were interchangable. This has been fixed.