203104 - Add LDAP bind with password

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(MailNews Core :: LDAP Integration, enhancement)

Description

[Kelsey M. Palmer]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020830
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020830

The LDAP bind in the Mozilla Address Book does not accept a password.  For
corporate/workgroup internal whitepages this is a desirable feature.  A simple
way to include a password for LDAP binding would be to enable it to be entered
in Preferences.  A smoother way would be to attempt to bind 1) w/o password,
then 2) with the password(s) supplied by the user for her email account(s). 
Especially when the user is prompted initially for a password with IMAP
accounts, this would enable the user to access internal white-pages seamlessly,
in a well-designed LDAP environment.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 2

[Dan Mosedale (:dmosedale, :dmose)]

LDAP bind does accept a password; it simply prompts for it in a wallet-based
prompt, and does not allow it to be entered in the preferences.