title: What's the difference in using distinguished name with cn or uid when logging into LDAP?
body: <p>I'm running into a problem using LDAP to authenticate logins.</p>
  
  <p>We are using a Novell edirectory for authentication of other applications like Jira. ( Jira works perfect ).</p>
  
  <p>I have this application that allow these basic LDAP configurations:
  <img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/bv87A.jpg" alt="enter image description here"></p>
  
  <p>My problem is, when I try to log in, it takes my username XXXXXXXX and pre-pends it to the search base as uid.  So it tries to log me in as :</p>
  
  <p>uid=XXXXXXXX,ou=people,o=mycompany</p>
  
  <p>Which would work on our Sun LDAP server, but doesn't work on our Novell edirectory LDAP server.  edirectory only works when I try to log in as the distinguished name : </p>
  
  <p>cn=XXXXXXXX,ou=people,o=mycompany</p>
  
  <p>Why does edirectory behave like this?  </p>
  
  <p>Is it config that we have specified or does edirectory always use cn as distinguished name?</p>
  
  <p>Thanks</p>