DefaultSearchBase / ForceSearchBase

["Jon Mitchiner" <ldap@mitchiner.net>]

I was searching through the threads about the DefaultSearchBase for LDAP
clients that do not submit a default search base and set it to a particular
string.

Unfortunately, there are broken clients out there (specifically, Microsoft)
that send a default search base, such as "c=US", "c=UK", among other things.
To make matters complicated, some of our users have a search base that is
set up incorrectly.

Instead of attempting to fix the users, I am wondering if it would be a good
idea to add in a 'feature' to OpenLDAP, especially if the directory
structure is simple.  The new feature I'd like to see would be called
"ForceSearchBase".

It would be nice if this feature would change the search base to something
else, for instance, changing any search base to "dc=example,dc=com".

Id appreciate some feedback and opinion on this to see if I should add this
'feature' to LDAP.

Jon