Buchan Milne wrote:
On Wednesday, 9 February 2011 01:13:38 masarati@aero.polimi.it wrote:
As far as I recall, what you need is not possible. You can:
have authenticated users proxied with their identity asserted, or
all users, including unauthenticated ones auth'd as a fixed identity
but not both. Please note that you're asking OpenLDAP's slapd to bridge the gap between two broken pieces of code: clients that cannot be configured to bind,
Because the OP wants to have anonymous access for some clients of the proxy does not necessarily mean the software is broken, there could be organisational reasons (e.g. AD administrator not prepared to create multiple proxy accounts for different applications).
and AD that cannot be configured to accept anonymous requests (AFAIK).
Again, AD can be configured to allow anonymous binds, but AFAIK as of Windows 2003, it is disabled by default, and many AD security standards (used by e.g. financial auditing companies in their IT auditing) mandate that it not be enabled.
Feel free to suggest an enhancement that allows to handle this scenario, though.
IMHO, it would make sense to support this mode of operation.
Sorry but that just doesn't compute. If you have organizational security standards that are being audited and they forbid anonymous access, then allowing anonymous access to an OpenLDAP proxy that connects to AD is going to be equally forbidden.
Come back with an argument that actually makes sense from a security perspective first. Otherwise this is just creating back doors to do end-runs around your sysadmins and company policies.