Hi,

I have a question about a special LDAP setup, we want to implement at the university computing centre. The story as it's intended to be:

We're running a groupware application (openxchange), which uses a LDAP server (openldap 2.2.23 on Suse 9.3) to authenticate its users (mainly members of the computing centre) and to store contacts, group memberships of the users and some of the user settings. This server runs on the same machine as the groupware itself.

There is another LDAP server (i don't know the version used there), that holds the centralized password and account name of all users at the university for various authentication purposes. This server only accepts bind requests.

The goal is to authenticate the users against the central LDAP server but to store the settings etc. on the local server. There is one additional problem, the naming contexts on the servers do not match each other. To give you a basic idea I reproduced this with "generic" names:

central: cn=user.account,ou=peopl,o=my organisation,c=acountry local:uid=user.account,ou=Users,ou=OxObjects,dc=my,dc=groupware,dc=server,dc=acountry

Is there a way to accomplish this?

If this is a RTFM question, please excuse me asking, but I'm not very familiar with openldap

By the way, we're planing to upgrade the server to a later version of the operating system, so answers for openldap 2.3.27 would be helpful too.

regards

Simon