[Freeipa-users] Serving RFC2307 to OS X clients

[Nalin Dahyabhai]

On Thu, Jun 07, 2012 at 05:03:11PM -0400, Ian Levesque wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I've read that the schema compatibility plugin should provide a vanilla RFC 2307 view of groups with memberUid attributes. I need this for our OS X clients, which don't seem capable of understanding the RFC 2307bis format of member DNs.
> 
> So, I enabled the plugin using `ipa-compat-manage enable` and ensured it's loaded via `ipa-compat-manage status`. I restarted the directory server.
> 
> However, I don't get memberUid attributes. I've seen some docs that say "cn=compat" should be added to the default base, but that returns nothing:
> 
>   ldapsearch -LLL -x -h sbgrid-directory -b cn=groups,cn=accounts,cn=compat,dc=sbgrid,dc=org cn=builders
>   No such object (32)
>   Matched DN: dc=sbgrid,dc=org

Try using "cn=groups,cn=compat,dc=sbgrid,dc=org" as the search base.  We 
don't put a "cn=accounts" container under cn=compat by default.

HTH,

Nalin