Re: Auto-detecting base DN?

[Pierangelo Masarati <ando@sys-net.it>]

Misty Stanley-Jones wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Several applications that I use with LDAP (Windows Address Book, PhpLDAPAdmin, 
> and others) claim that they can auto-detect the base DN.  However, with 
> OpenLDAP they don't work, I have to put it in by hand.  Is there some setting 
> in slapd.conf that will make this auto-detecting work?  I haven't been able 
> to find anything about it.
>  
Basically, it's the value of the "namingContexts" attribute in the 
rootDSE (entry with empty DN which must be searched with a scope of 
"base").  Of course those apps that claim that should know that 
"namingContexts" is an operational attribute, so it must be explicitly 
requested...

p.





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