Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2006 12:05:52 -0700
From: Richard Megginson <rmeggins@xxxxxxxxxx>
Glenn W. Bach wrote:
I'm replacing an ldap server with Fedora Directory. The old one
allows searches with
the base dn empty. Is there a way to allow searches with a blank
base dn in Fedora
Directory?
I'm assuming you mean the ability to perform a subtree search with a
base dn of "". No,
you cannot do this with Fedora DS. What is your old directory server?
Does it do this
by default or do you have to configure it to do so?
Yes, -b ''
We are actually replacing an Exchange 5.5 system that is pretending to
be an ldap server.
The unfortunate thing is that hundreds of users have their base dn
blank, which is
something Exchange can apparently deal with. I am not sure if it had
to be specifically configured to allow this.
No, that explains it.
So the bottom line sounds like we need to touch several hundred
desktops if we want to transition away from Exchange. Sigh...
Perhaps not. OpenLDAP has the ability to act as an LDAP proxy and
rewrite the base DN. I'm not sure how to do this, but probably someone
on the openldap lists would know.
OpenLDAP has a more relevant solution here: you can set a
defaultsearchbase on slapd that is used when a search request comes in
with an empty baseDN and non-base scope. This feature exists in OpenLDAP
precisely because of all those misconfigured clients in the world.
Alternately, you could write a plug-in (datainterop) that maps incoming
requests for base "" and sub scope to your real suffix.
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