[Fedora-directory-users] Password Sync Search Scope

Rich Megginson rmeggins at redhat.com
Thu Oct 6 21:46:11 UTC 2005


Ben Madsen - Mailing List wrote:

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

Pretty soon.

> -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 
>>
>>
>
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