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Re: OpenLDAP and DNS SRV records
I'm confused. You said it's already in the libs ando?
On 30/12/2008, Pierangelo Masarati <ando@sys-net.it> wrote:
> Buchan Milne wrote:
>
>>> The man page says: "if no host/port is specified, but a DN is...". It
>>> means that:
>>>
>>> - you must provide a(n RFC 45) LDAP URI
>>>
>>> - it must contain no host/port
>>>
>>> - it must contain a DN
>>>
>>> yours is not a LDAP URI. Try something like "ldap:///dc=domain,dc=com";.
>>>
>>> The 2.4 client tools have been modified to support this feature.
>>> However, they use libldap to perform this. See clients/tools/common.c,
>>> the calls to ldap_dn2domain(3) and ldap_domain2hostlist(3) calls (I
>>> don't think they actually have a man page...). Those calls are
>>> available in libldap since 2.0, I believe, in 2000.
>>
>> Is there a reason this isn't implemented in the library? As far as I
>> understand, at present only the OpenLDAP utilities will work with this
>> URI,
>> while if it were implemented in the library, other LDAP clients using the
>> OpenLDAP library which don't already support a similar feature (sudo is
>> the
>> best example I can think of in this case, though various other desktop
>> software could benefit) would get it for free?
>
> Because. If this is considered useful, we can move it to the library,
> of course. Please file an ITS.
>
> p.
>
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