[Samba] multiple ldap servers

[Andrew Bartlett]

"Gerald (Jerry) Carter" wrote:
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> On Fri, 1 Nov 2002, Nathan Ehresman wrote:
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> > Hello,
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> > I was looking at the ldap authentication code (in 2.2.5) and it looks
> > like there is no support for having multiple ldap servers for
> > authentication (ie, if one is not responding, try from a backup).  Does
> > anyone have a patch to add this functionality?  If not, I'll go ahead
> > and do it but I wanted to check to see if it has already been done first.
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> Check the HEAD code.  There may be support in there you can back port.

No such support at present, but in HEAD you can come close by setting up
2 passdb backends.  (This isn't ideal however, beocuse lookups that fail
in the first will always go to the second).

Adding such support to HEAD would be very nice - the difficult bit is
actually deciding how to construct smb.conf options.

Andrew Bartlett

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