From 27d3f2e7ab8e88ef61e930e0b817608863760f92 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Erik Johnston <erik@matrix.org>
Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2016 14:32:54 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Explicitly set authentication mode in ldap3

This only makes a difference for versions of ldap3 before 1.0, but a)
its best to be explicit and b) there are distributions that package
ancient versions for ldap3 (e.g. debian).
---
 synapse/util/ldap_auth_provider.py | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/synapse/util/ldap_auth_provider.py b/synapse/util/ldap_auth_provider.py
index f852e9b037..1b989248fb 100644
--- a/synapse/util/ldap_auth_provider.py
+++ b/synapse/util/ldap_auth_provider.py
@@ -236,7 +236,8 @@ class LdapAuthProvider(object):
                 value=localpart,
                 base=self.ldap_base
             )
-            conn = ldap3.Connection(server, bind_dn, password)
+            conn = ldap3.Connection(server, bind_dn, password,
+                                    authentication=ldap3.AUTH_SIMPLE)
             logger.debug(
                 "Established LDAP connection in simple bind mode: %s",
                 conn
-- 
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