Need advice on AD authentication confirguration in Dancer2 app.

chandantul has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hello Smart Monks, I will need your help in AD authentication configuration in app.psgi file. I was able to conifugure simple authentication but not able to configure AD authentication. Please check my below code that is not not leeting me start the app.psgi.

# use this block if you don't need middleware, and only have a single 
+target Dancer app to run here
use webapp;
use Plack::Builder;
use Authen::Simple::ActiveDirectory;

my $ad = Authen::Simple::ActiveDirectory->new( 
    host      => 'ldaps//ADDEV.dev.abc.com',
    principal => 'abc.com'
);

builder {
    enable "Auth::Basic", authenticator => $ad;
    webapp->to_app;
};
my($username, $password, $env) = @_;
if ( $ad->authenticate( $username, $password ) ) {
    # successfull authentication
} else {
    die "Wrong ID and Password\n"
}
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Please check below error and help me to identify the issue if possible

:Simple::ActiveDirectory::authenticate was an 'undef', which is not on
+e of the allowed types: scalar
 at C:/Strawberry/perl/site/lib/Authen/Simple/Adapter.pm line 42, <DAT
+A> line 755.
        Authen::Simple::Adapter::authenticate(undef, undef, undef) cal
+led at C:\Users\Documents\Perl\webapp\bin\app.psgi line 26
        require C:\Users\Documents\Perl\webapp\bin\app.psgi called at 
+(eval 6) line 3
        eval 'package Plack::Sandbox::C_3a_5cUsers_5c503004671_5cDocum
+ents_5cPerl_5cSynchrony_2dPerl_5cwebapp_5cbin_5capp_2epsgi;
{
    my $app = do $_file;
    if ( !$app && ( my $error = $@ || $! )) { die $error; }
    $app;
}
' called at C:/Strawberry/perl/site/lib/Plack/Util.pm line 120
        Plack::Util::_load_sandbox("C:\\Users\\Documents\\Perl\\webapp
+\\bin\\a"...) called at C:/Strawberry/perl/site/lib/Plack/Util.pm lin
+e 136
        Plack::Util::load_psgi("app.psgi") called at C:/Strawberry/per
+l/site/lib/Plack/Runner.pm line 181
        Plack::Runner::__ANON__() called at C:/Strawberry/perl/site/li
+b/Plack/Runner.pm line 24
        Plack::Runner::__ANON__() called at C:/Strawberry/perl/site/li
+b/Plack/Runner.pm line 24
        Plack::Runner::__ANON__() called at C:/Strawberry/perl/site/li
+b/Plack/Runner.pm line 24
        Plack::Runner::__ANON__() called at C:/Strawberry/perl/site/li
+b/Plack/Runner.pm line 24
        Plack::Runner::__ANON__() called at C:/Strawberry/perl/site/li
+b/Plack/Loader.pm line 55
        Plack::Loader::preload_app(Plack::Loader=HASH(0x65aa50), CODE(
+0x2ca34c0)) called at C:/Strawberry/perl/site/lib/Plack/Runner.pm lin
+e 276
        Plack::Runner::run(Plack::Runner=HASH(0x11aa248)) called at C:
+\Strawberry\perl\site\bin/plackup line 7
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Re: Need advice on AD authentication confirguration in Dancer2 app. by 1nickt (Canon) on May 11, 2021 at 10:46 UTC
Hi, This: `my($username, $password, $env) = @_; if ( $ad->authenticate( $username, $password ) ) {` [download] led to this: `Authen::Simple::Adapter::authenticate(undef, undef, undef) called at C +:\Users\Documents\Perl\webapp\bin\app.psgi` [download] So what do you think could be wrong? How can you check that you are making the authenticate() call with the right parameters? Hope this helps! The way forward always starts with a minimal test.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^2: Need advice on AD authentication confirguration in Dancer2 app. by chandantul (Scribe) on May 12, 2021 at 03:26 UTC
Hello, I made the authentication works for AD for this Dacer2 app by the below code but i would like to add the logout option post authentication. How i can achive the same> Please advice with code snippet if possible. `use webapp; use Plack::Builder; use Authen::Simple::ActiveDirectory; use Log::Log4perl; my $ad = Authen::Simple::ActiveDirectory->new( host => 'ldap://addev.dev.abc.com', principal => 'addev.dev.abc.com', timeout => '60', log => Log::Log4perl->get_logger('Authen::Simple::ActiveDirectory' +) ); builder { enable "Auth::Basic", authenticator => $ad; my ( $username, $password ) = @_; webapp->to_app; };` [download]	[reply] [d/l]