[Fedora-directory-users] Password Sync Search Scope

[Ben Madsen - Mailing List]

Anybody know when the next release is going to be for this particular 
tool?  Or any of if for that matter?
-Ben

Brian Peters wrote:

> Well, I got impatient and did a little digging through the source and 
> found out the bad news for myself, but then I found some good news at 
> least.  It looks like the current release has the search scope 
> hardcoded as one-level, but the bug had already been located and fixed 
> as of this commit in June:
>
> https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-directory-commits/2005-June/msg00000.html 
>
>
> So, I guess anyone else with this problem needs to wait for the next 
> release (or recompile if they are impatient).
>
> Brian
>
> Brian Peters wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have a user directory structure in AD that mimics a typical org 
>> chart such that my ou=People directory contains additional ou's as 
>> subtrees that represent different departments.  I have a windows sync 
>> agreement in FDS set up, and after manually adding the various ou's 
>> on the FDS side, all the users sync over properly in all the subtrees.
>>
>> My problem is with the password sync service for windows.  Upon 
>> changing a user's password that has already been replicated to FDS 
>> from AD, I see in the access logs a search along these lines:
>>
>> SRCH base="ou=People,dc=my,dc=domain" scope=1 
>> filter="(ntUserDomainId=myUser)" attrs=ALL
>>
>> with the result indicating no entries found:
>>
>> RESULT err=0 tag=101 nentries=0 etime=0
>>
>> The myUser account is at ou=MyDept,ou=People,dc=my,dc=domain, but the 
>> password sync service issues a search request to only search the 
>> ou=People directory non-recursively (i.e. scope=1).  I don't see any 
>> options in either the PassSync.msi setup or in the registry keys to 
>> force the service to do a scope=2 recursive search.  I tried to use 
>> the syntax "ou=People,dc=my,dc=domain?sub", but it doesn't seem to 
>> recognize that either.  Is there any workaround for this besides to 
>> synchronize all of my users to a single directory on FDS?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Brian 
>