Re: Retrieving userPassword via back-meta

[Dave Horsfall <daveh@ci.com.au>]

On Wed, 15 Mar 2006, Pierangelo Masarati wrote:

> To summarize: you're saying that the "pseudorootdn" stuff no longer works
> in back-meta as of 2.3.20, correct?  It may well be possible, as that area
> saw a lot of development recently.  I suggest you file an ITS; can you
> design a very simple, self-contained example that shows the issue, just to
> ease tracking the issue?  A one-target meta with as little ACL as possible
> should be fine.

It turned out to be a configuration error (and I hadn't included that bit 
of slapd.conf).  The meta backend had no rootdn/rootpw defined, but quite 
happily accepted the one I gave it, resulting in an anonymous rebind to 
the underlying suffix.

Why this worked in 2.2 is anyone's guess...

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