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(ITS#8142) back-ldap transparent reconnecting is not so transparent



Full_Name: Emily Backes
Version: 2.4
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Submission from: (NULL) (50.113.67.84)


Currently, back-ldap stores credentials in the outbound connection
structure.  When that disappears, e.g. from idle-timeout, conn-ttl,
network lossage, AD trouble, etc., the connection becomes unbound and
AD returns err=1 (Operations error), which isn't enougfofor back-ldap
to treat it as LDAP_UNAVAILABLE.

Howard reports this is working-as-designed, even if the design is bad.
Several ITS filings are still open about this problem; 5110, 6571, and
7464 are all related.

At a minimum, we should drop the client connection if we can't keep
the session stable.  If we keep it open, we need to ensure we can
precisely duplicate the client session-state, including credentials.
(this would be very useful).