Full_Name: Kartik Subbarao Version: 2.4 OS: Red Hat Enterprise Linux URL: ftp://ftp.openldap.org/incoming/adauth.tar.gz Submission from: (NULL) (76.99.180.78)
As discussed with Howard Chu, HP is contributing the code for an Active Directory Authentication overlay (written by Neil Dunbar) to OpenLDAP.
The adauth overlay provides passthrough authentication to Active Directory for LDAP simple bind operations. The local LDAP entry referenced in the bind operation is mapped to its counterpart in the Active Directory, an LDAP bind operation is performed against Active Directory, and results are returned based on the results of that remote operation. If a local userPassword attribute is populated for the entry, it is used instead of the AD authentication.