Full_Name: Juergen Sprenger Version: 2.4.35 OS: Gentoo Base System release 2.1, Kernel 3.7.10 URL: ftp://ftp.openldap.org/incoming/ Submission from: (NULL) (193.5.238.18) mdb dereference aliases problem.

I use aliases to keep information about a person who has multiple accounts consistent over all accounts and avoid redundancy, example: dn: uid=joe,ou=Account,dc=its,dc=scom objectClass: alias objectClass: extensibleObject uid: joe aliasedObjectName: uid=joe,ou=Person,dc=its,dc=scom structuralObjectClass: alias When using hdb as backend for slapd everything works fine, and user are authenticated properly: # running 'getent passwd' with hdb backend: Apr 24 09:53:54 openldap-dev slapd[19240]: conn=1000 op=0 BIND dn="cn=itsAgent,ou=customerAgent,dc=scom" method=128 Apr 24 09:53:54 openldap-dev slapd[19240]: conn=1000 op=0 BIND dn="cn=itsAgent,ou=customerAgent,dc=scom" mech=SIMPLE ssf=0 Apr 24 09:53:54 openldap-dev slapd[19240]: conn=1000 op=0 RESULT tag=97 err=0 text= Apr 24 09:53:54 openldap-dev slapd[19240]: conn=1000 op=1 SRCH base="ou=account,dc=its,dc=scom" scope=1 deref=3 filter="(objectClass=posixAccount)" Apr 24 09:53:54 openldap-dev slapd[19240]: conn=1000 op=1 SRCH attr=uid userPassword uidNumber gidNumber cn homeDirectory x-LinuxLoginShell gecos description objectClass Apr 24 09:53:54 openldap-dev slapd[19240]: conn=1000 op=1 SEARCH RESULT tag=101 err=0 nentries=656 text= Apr 24 09:53:54 openldap-dev slapd[19240]: conn=1000 fd=13 closed (connection lost) When using mdb as backend with same directory content, users are no longer authenticated, search returns nentries=0: # running 'getent passwd' with mdb backend: Apr 24 10:00:17 openldap-dev slapd[19300]: conn=1002 op=0 BIND dn="cn=itsAgent,ou=customerAgent,dc=scom" method=128 Apr 24 10:00:17 openldap-dev slapd[19300]: conn=1002 op=0 BIND dn="cn=itsAgent,ou=customerAgent,dc=scom" mech=SIMPLE ssf=0 Apr 24 10:00:17 openldap-dev slapd[19300]: conn=1002 op=0 RESULT tag=97 err=0 text= Apr 24 10:00:17 openldap-dev slapd[19300]: conn=1002 op=1 SRCH base="ou=account,dc=its,dc=scom" scope=1 deref=3 filter="(objectClass=posixAccount)" Apr 24 10:00:17 openldap-dev slapd[19300]: conn=1002 op=1 SRCH attr=uid userPassword uidNumber gidNumber cn homeDirectory x-LinuxLoginShell gecos description objectClass Apr 24 10:00:17 openldap-dev slapd[19300]: conn=1002 op=1 SEARCH RESULT tag=101 err=0 text= Apr 24 10:00:17 openldap-dev slapd[19300]: conn=1002 fd=13 closed (connection lost) Both setups have identical md5sum of slapcat output, so directory content can be assumed identical in my opinion.