Re: Use active directory to check password but keep all user data in LDAP

Mattias Segerdahl wrote:

Hello,

I was wondering if it is possible to configure OpenLDAP 2.4 to only check the password validation with Active Directory and have the rest of the user attributes, such as mail, loginShell, homeDirectory, etc. come from OpenLDAP? Any pointers, guides, howto’s or even “let me google that for you” are highly appreciated.

Several ways to do that. Use the adauth overlay, or the remoteauth overlay, or the pbind overlay, for example.

Overall it's a bad idea, Active Directory authentication is thousands of times slower than OpenLDAP authentication. You can very easily overload the AD server on an active network.