Searching child OU's for authentication

[Gaddis, Jeremy L.]

On Tue, 27 Feb 2007, Josh Miller wrote:
> The example does not accomplish what the OP describes, as it is limited to 
> the Users OU.  The goal here is to be able to point the Apache config at a 
> Domain Controller and have it search ALL OUs and right now there is a seeming 
> limitation on a single top-level OU -- although any user object within that 
> top-level OU will work.

I changed the coniguration I posted slightly from the "real" 
configuration.  In our Active Directory structure, we have an OU at 
the root-level called "Acad", therefore:

AuthLDAPURL 
ldap://my.domain.edu:389/cn=Acad,DC=domain,DC=edu?sAMAccountName?sub?(objectclass=*)

With this, we're able to authenticate any user "under" the Acad OU. 
There are no user objects actually *in* the Acad OU, but there a few 
OUs under that where user objects reside.

I suppose I am not "searching all OUs" as I limit the searches to 
anything the top-level Acad OU.

HTH,
-j

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