Hi Benjamin,

Are you hinting at running the openldap server instead of openldap
client and sync the required accounts using replication and
authenticate againt the openldap server locally ?

Thanks,
Vinay

On 10/23/10, Benjamin Griese <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi vinay,
>
> you may take a look at this:
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/acctsync/
>
> It's not exactly what you want, but can help you reaching the goal. :)
>
> Bye, Benjamin.
>
> On Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 12:22, Vinay Kalkoti <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am working on authenticating OpenLDAP client with AD server. I saw
>> lots of examples which map the rfc2307bis schema using nss_schema
>> attribute in ldap.conf file
>>
>> # Enable support for RFC2307bis (distinguished names in group
>> # members)
>> nss_schema rfc2307bis
>>
>> and also, map the attributes of the rfc2307bis to the AD server schema
>> attributes.
>>
>> nss_map_attribute uid msSFU30Name
>> nss_map_attribute uidNumber msSFU30UidNumber
>> nss_map_attribute gidNumber msSFU30GidNumber
>> nss_map_attribute loginShell msSFU30LoginShell
>> nss_map_attribute gecos name
>> nss_map_attribute userPassword msSFU30Password
>> nss_map_attribute homeDirectory msSFU30HomeDirectory
>>
>>
>> Isn't there a way I can fetch the schema from the AD server and set it
>> using nss_schema ?.
>>
>> Basically, I am looking at fetching the schema/objectClass/Attributes
>> from the LDAP/AD server and make them as a client schema's so that I
>> don't have to keep doing the mapping using nss_map_attribute and
>> nss_schema.
>>
>> I am new to LDAP world, and I am sorry if I my question doesn't make any
>> sense.
>>
>> I have seen lots of enterprise products which integrate with LDAP/AD.
>> They provide a user interface to map the server side schema
>> objectClass and attributes. I am trying to see if I can get rid of
>> this and do it internally.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Vinay
>>
>
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