Re: ldapsearch does not work properly

["Dieter Kluenter" <dieter@dkluenter.de>]

Martin Jungowski <martin@rhm.de> writes:

> I'm facing a weird problem with ldapsearch on our companies CentOS 
> OpenLDAP Server (CentOS 5.5, OpenLDAP 2.3.43-12.el5). Our DIT is as 
> follows:
>
> o=company_name,c=country,ou=branch,ou=pool
>
> Within that pool are all users of that particular branch office. With 
> some of those ldapsearch does not return a result when the search base is 
> o=company_name but does return one starting with c=country,o=company_name:
>
> martin/linux2$ ldapsearch -x -h icld -b c=de,o=company_name uid | grep dn 
> | grep s_sarwar
> dn: uid=s_sarwar,ou=pool,ou=branch,c=de,o=company_name
> martin/linux2$ ldapsearch -x -h icld -b o=company_name uid | grep dn | 
> grep s_sarwar
> martin/linux2$
>
> With other users within that same branch it works as expected:
>
> martin/linux2$ ldapsearch -x -h icld -b c=de,o=company_name uid | grep dn 
> | grep t_ceylan
> dn: uid=t_ceylan,ou=pool,ou=branch,c=de,o=company_name
> martin/linux2$ ldapsearch -x -h icld -b o=company_name uid | grep dn | 
> grep t_ceylan
> dn: uid=t_ceylan,ou=pool,ou=branch,c=de,o=company_name
> martin/linux2$
>
> It does work for s_sarwar when I use the admin account to bind to in 
> ldapsearch but my understanding is that it should work without it as 
> well. We have no roles, no ACLs, no encryption, no nothing in that 
> server. Simple authentication, nothing complicated.
>
> Any ideas?

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-Dieter

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