Re: OpenLDAP+Active Directory

>I was testing a subdomain configuration and I wondered: What happened >to the -C switch? And will there be support for following referrals >with credentials? Doing so is a security vulnerability, so that support was dropped from all of the bundled tools quite a long time ago. Referrals in general are a stupid, poorly designed, insecure feature of LDAP which is why OpenLDAP provides so many secure alternatives to them (chaining, glued back-ldap, etc.). Server topology information belongs solidly in the server, and should never be explicitly exposed to clients. Clients have no way to know which servers can be trusted (beyond, presumably, the initial one they contacted), nor when a referral might cross an administrative boundary (and thus require a different set of credentials). This is all knowledge that a server administrator already has, and it should only ever be dealt with on the server side. The fact that ActiveDirectory is entirely glued together with referrals is just one of many flaws in its design.