I would be interested in this.

Where you able to get it to convert anonymous searches on openldap to  non anon 
searches into ad

So I wanted to be able to search email addresses from ad from openldap . I 
created a read only userid for ad. But I could never work  out how to configure 
openldap to use the given user/password when there was a anon request.

Alex

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Subject: OpenLDAP Proxy to AD of User Objects with full/correct schema

I know this list gets a large number of questions about Active Directory 
integration and this one is no different. I've tried to do as much research as 
possible on my own but still have a few un-answered questions and issues, so 
i'm adding yet another AD question to the list. Sorry in advance.

My initial foray into OpenLDAP was to use it to store the idmaps created by 
Samba, so that mapped user and group IDs were identical between file servers. 
As I thought about it more, I realized we could use LDAP to centralize our 
Linux users, groups, and access to other LDAP-enabled applications. The point 
of all this is, that I don't need to proxy Active Directory (and its schema) in 
its entirety, I really just want to use it as a central repository for user 
info and authentication.

So, I guess, my first question is: Is this a viable use case? All signs seem to 
point to yes, but I just want to make sure.

I currently have a proxy database configured that is successfully 
proxying/querying our AD infrastructure. From what I've read, OpenLDAP 2.3 and 
newer have the ability to proxy unknown schemas, but will be not be able to do 
any advanced filtering because the schema is unknown. My question is, given a 
full export of the AD schema from 
CN=Schema,CN=Configuration,DC=corp,DC=whatever,DC=com via LDIFDE, is there a 
way to leverage this to re-create parts of the AD schema so that OpenLDAP can 
perform native filtering? I'm primarily only interested in the user objects 
(ObjectClass=user).

I know that all of this might be easier if I was to use ADAM/ADLDS and/or 
scrape the Samba4 schema, but i'd like to do it myself just for the education 
it provides and because I'm trying to implement just the bare minimum to our 
users. I've also seen the AD/Outlook Global Address List entry in the FAQ, but 
that involves editing the OpenLDAP provided .schema files. If possible, i'd 
like to keep all of these AD related schemas within their own files and keep 
the OpenLDAP provided ones untouched.

Thanks for the help,

-Dave

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