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Re: OpenLDAP Referrals

To: openldap-software@openldap.org
Subject: Re: OpenLDAP Referrals
From: "Dieter Kluenter" <dieter@dkluenter.de>
Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2008 11:45:48 +0100
In-reply-to: <fcbf6b50802251140w3e60cc08u9ef943df70d182fa@mail.gmail.com> (Mack Jenkins's message of "Mon, 25 Feb 2008 14:40:16 -0500")
References: <C88795AF-B702-4AD7-BA1D-A182EFD2AADC@gmail.com> <hbf.20080222upss@bombur.uio.no> <fcbf6b50802251140w3e60cc08u9ef943df70d182fa@mail.gmail.com>
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"Mack Jenkins" <mack.jenkins@gmail.com> writes:

> What I am trying to do is this.  When my OpenLDAP server is queried
> for authentication, if the user id and password are not local to my
> OpenLDAP server, but they do exist on another OpenLDAP server, I want
> my OpenLDAP server to tell the application that sent the log in
> request, to go to that other OpenLDAP server for authentication.  I am
> hoping this can be done automatically without the user having to make
> another login attempt.

Your are requesting X.500 DAP services. LDAP only supports
referrals. If uid is part of the DN, you may create a named referral
locally and have the client to follow this referral and rebind to the
remot server. 

-Dieter

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Follow-Ups:
- Re: OpenLDAP Referrals
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References:
- OpenLDAP Referrals
  - From: "Mack J. Jenkins, II" <mack.jenkins@gmail.com>
- Re: OpenLDAP Referrals
  - From: Hallvard B Furuseth <h.b.furuseth@usit.uio.no>
- Re: OpenLDAP Referrals
  - From: "Mack Jenkins" <mack.jenkins@gmail.com>

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