LDAP search suffix

[Gerald (Jerry) Carter]

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On Wed, 2 Jun 2004, Washington County wrote:

> At the county we are using a global LDAP server with
> people/group/machine subdivide by "ou=". (see below) Unfortunatly
> because SAMBA will only do searches using the global ldap_base we are
> forced to either modify our LDAP implementation (not an option) or
> modify SAMBA.  We are considering writing a patch for SAMBA but are
> wonder if there was a specific reason why the ldap_*_suffix is only used
> when creating new users, instead of also being used for lookups?

Historical baggage and backwards compatibility.






cheers, jerry
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