I have been attempting to configure openldap to act as a proxy for our corporate Active Directory installation. The idea is, of course, that users of linux workstations can use their AD credentials. While we are also experimenting with AD integration using winbind, we also want the option to use standard LDAP, as it means that the linux workstations do not have to be joined to the Active Directory domain. Many previous posts on this forum have been most helpful, (as have posts to the openldap-software list), and I have our setup working, but there is one strange problem. I prefer that our linux workstations can connect to the openldap anonymously, as it means we do not have to have credentials stored in /etc/ldap.conf. This should not be a problem as our openldap proxy can have credentials stored for connecting to the AD server. But what I find is that when I start the slapd, none of the linux workstations can connect until I first issue a query to the slapd using valid credentials. Eg: 1. Start slapd /usr/local/libexec/slapd 2. Linux workstations cannot bind anonymously 3. Issue query against slapd /usr/bin/ldapsearch -H ldap://localhost \ -D "cn=someuser,ou=Accounts,dc=example,dc=com" \ -w "secret" -x -s base "(objectclass=*)" namingContext 4. Linux workstations can now bind anonymously Although there is the obvious work-around that after starting the slapd, we issue the query above, I would kind of like to know why this is happening. Maybe there is a better way? I am using openldap 2.4.16, with ldap and bdb backends, and all overlays. Operating system is CentOS 5. Any pointers on how to improve my config would be most welcome. My slapd.conf: ==== BEGIN slapd.conf ==== include /usr/local/etc/openldap/schema/core.schema include /usr/local/etc/openldap/schema/cosine.schema include /usr/local/etc/openldap/schema/inetorgperson.schema include /usr/local/etc/openldap/schema/nis.schema pidfile /usr/local/var/run/slapd.pid argsfile /usr/local/var/run/slapd.args loglevel 256 monitoring on defaultsearchbase "dc=example,dc=com" database ldap suffix "dc=example,dc=com" uri "ldap://adserver.example.com" # Not sure why, but when this is not set, the JDK LDAP browser # will not connect anonymously about one time in four. chase-referrals no # If this is not set, the user cannot connect anonymously. # The first connection must be bound, but subsequent connections can # be anonymous. (More investigation required) rebind-as-user yes acl-bind bindmethod=simple binddn="cn=username,ou=Accounts,dc=example,dc=com" credentials="secret" idassert-bind bindmethod=simple binddn="cn=username,ou=Accounts,dc=example,dc=com" credentials="secret" mode=none flags=non-prescriptive overlay rwm # Because posixAccount does not exist in the Active Directory schema, we need # to map to an objectclass that does exist. We could use user, but at this # time we don't have a schema for the AD 'user' objectclass. It just happens # that organizationalPerson is defined in our AD. rwm-map objectclass posixAccount organizationalPerson rwm-map attribute homeDirectory unixHomeDirectory access to dn.subtree="dc=example,dc=com" by * read ==== END slapd.conf ====