I'm attempting to use OpenLDAP as a proxy to an Active Directory domain.  Using 
the ldap backend, I'm able to configure the proxy and that configuration seems 
to be working well.   But account entries are frequently moved from ou to ou in 
a domain and Microsoft permits the bind DN to be a userPrincipalName attribute 
value of the entry instead of the full DN of the account; this features avoids 
having to make many bind DN application configuration changes.

With just the ldap backend configured, OpenLDAP rejects the userPrincipalName 
(UPN) bind DN as an invalid DN.  To work around this error, I was trying to see 
if I could use the rwm overlay to detect the UPN  and convert to the actual 
domain entry DN using an attribute map.  If I use the form

mail=UPN

the map works as expected; however, if I only provide the UPN as the bind DN, 
OpenLDAP still rejects it as an invalid DN.   I suspect that the rwm overlay 
manipulations to not take effect until after the bind DN syntax is checked.  I 
wanted to confirm my suspicion and see if any one else has been able to get a 
UPN-based bind to work through OpenLDAP.

For reference my slapd.conf configuration is below:

### Schema includes ###########################################################
include                 /etc/openldap/schema/core.schema
include                 /etc/openldap/schema/cosine.schema
include                 /etc/openldap/schema/inetorgperson.schema
include                 /etc/openldap/schema/misc.schema
include                 /etc/openldap/schema/nis.schema

## Module paths ##############################################################
modulepath              /usr/lib64/openldap/
moduleload              rwm

# Main settings ###############################################################
loglevel                8
sizelimit               unlimited
idletimeout             600
writetimeout            30
allow                   bind_v2
pidfile                 /var/openldap/mycompany/var/slapd.pid
argsfile                /var/openldap/mycompany/var/slapd.args
logfile                 /var/openldap/mycompany/logs/access

TLSCertificateFile       /var/openldap/mycompany/certs/Server.pem
TLSCertificateKeyFile    /var/openldap/mycompany/certs/Server.key
TLSCACertificateFile    /var/openldap/mycompany/certs/ServerCA.pem

### Rewrite rules #############################################################

# Bind with UPN instead of full DN: we first need
# an ldap map that turns attributes into a DN (the
# argument used when invoking the map is appended to
# the URI and acts as the filter portion)

overlay                 rwm
rwm-suffixMassage       "" "dc=mycompany,dc=com"
rwm-rewriteMap ldap attr2dn 
"ldaps://mycompany.com/ou=Domain%20Users,dc=mycompany,dc=com?dn?sub" 
bindwhen=now version=3 binddn="CN=mybindacct,ou=Domain 
Users,DC=mycompany,DC=com" credentials=******

# Then we need to detect UPN DN
# note that the rule in case of match stops rewriting
# In case we are mapping virtual
# to real naming contexts, we also need to rewrite
# regular DNs, because the definition of a bindDN
# rewrite context overrides the default definition.

rwm-rewriteContext bindDN
rwm-rewriteRule "^[^=,][email protected]$" "mail=$0" ":"
rwm-rewriteRule "^mail=[^,][email protected]$" "${attr2dn($0)}" ":@"



### Database definition (Proxy to AD) #########################################
database                ldap
readonly                yes
protocol-version        3
rebind-as-user
uri                     "ldaps://mycompany.com"
suffix                  "dc=mycompany,dc=com"



Thanks,

Steve Vandenburgh


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