I am not worried about the client machine binding to the proxy server as long as the proxy server binds with a user to the AD server.
Right now what is happening is:
Issue " id user " on the client server, the connect then makes it to proxy server as anonymous, but the proxy never attempts to bind to the AD server to verify if "user" exists in AD. If I issues the same command " id user " from the proxy server, it binds to AD and give me information about the user. I can't figure out how to get the client server to bind to the AD server "through" the proxy?
-Lynn
-----Original Message----- From: Pierangelo Masarati [mailto:ando@sys-net.it] Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2008 9:12 AM To: Lynn York Cc: openldap-technical@openldap.org Subject: Re: LDAP proxy for AD
Lynn York wrote:
When I issue "id user" from the client machine I can see the connection to the proxy server, but I do not see the connection from the proxy to the AD server. It also binds anonymously through the proxy and I need it to bind with a certain user.
[ SNIPPET FROM slapd.conf ]
database ldap suffix "dc=ldaptest,dc=local" uri "ldap://2008vm1.inetu.net"
acl-bind bindmethod=simple binddn="CN=Bind User,CN=Users,DC=ldaptest,DC=local" credentials="testing"
idassert-bind bindmethod=simple authzID="u:bind" mode=self binddn="CN=Bind User,CN=Users,DC=ldaptest,DC=local" credentials="testing"
First of all, authzID is only useful if "mode" is not given, as specified in the man page; it's ignored in your case.
Second, the idassert-bind directive is only honored if the user authenticates, while your application is probably binding anonymously to the proxy.
If you want idassert to work also for anonymous operations (not recommended, as this defeats the security model of the remote server, by letting it believe that the proxy authenticated users while it didn't), you need to explicitly enable it using an idassert-authzFrom rule that includes anonymous, like
idassert-authzFrom "dn.regex:.*"
p.
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