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Re: back-ldap uses LDAP2?



On Fri, Nov 10, 2000 at 04:08:46PM -0800, Kurt D. Zeilenga wrote:
> At 05:21 PM 11/10/00 +0100, Bertrand Croq wrote:
> >Hello,
> >  I am still working on the problem between an Active Directory and
> >slapd with back-ldap (see the messages "back-ldap problem with Win2000
> >Active Directory" for more). After some tcp dumps, I have found that the
> >bind message from slapd to AD specifies that it uses LDAP version 2:
> >
> >client <--- LDAP3 ---> slapd <--- LDAP2 ---> AD
> >
> >Now I understand why AD doesn't send LDAP3 referrals... Is it the way it
> >should to work?
> 
> back-ldap likely should bind using the same version as the originating
> client...

I would like to be able to do:

client <--- LDAP2 ---> slapd <--- LDAP3 ---> server

where the backend chases LDAPv3 referrals/references. This is a solution
we probably will need here at UNINETT. We possibly also want character
set conversion. I'm probably going to look into this next year some time.

Stig