LDAP search suffix

[Klinger, John (N-CSC)]

If I read your message correctly, there is a patch for Samba 3.0.1 that does
what you want. If you integrate this capability into a later version, post your
patch to the group as we may eventually upgrade.
 
https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1184
 
Good Luck,
john
 
 
> 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?
 
LDAP STRUCTURE
dc=washco,dc=utah,dc=gov
ou=people
---ou=saint-george-city
------dn: uid=bubba,....
---ou=ivins-town
------dn: uid=freddy,....
 
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