Re: translucent overlay and binding

[Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com>]

Gavin Henry wrote:
> Mateusz Kijowski wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> >
> > I am trying to create an OpenLDAP instance for our programming team's test
> > environment. They want to have all data coherent with our production systems
> > except for some of the passwords, so I figured I need to use the translucent
> > overlay and override some userPassword attributes. I managed to do so, and I
> > can tell that the local value of password attribute is being compared, not
> > the one from the remote (production) server.
> >
> > The probem is when users want to bind to the test server - their requests are
> > being proxied to the production server. I would like them to bind using the
> > overriden (local) credentials. Is it possible?
>
> Can we see your config?
The current code doesn't do any special merging for Bind operations, it always 
passes them straight to the remote server. I suppose it might be useful to add 
that, probably should file an enhancement request.

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