Re: [exim] Exim hangs on ldap search

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Author: Lou Vasquez
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To: Alain Williams
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] Exim hangs on ldap search

We're actually planning on moving our "real" users over to openldap long
range, that's actually how we had it to begin with, this AD stuff was an
office related idea that I'm pushing away from.

I'm actually happy with the perl hack as it doesn't require much setup,
but that's a good idea. I hadn't thought about that, but it might be a
good way of allowing certain users access via their "virtual" AD
existence.

Lou

-----Original Message-----
From: Alain Williams [mailto:addw@phcomp.co.uk]
Sent: Monday, July 24, 2006 3:40 PM
To: Lou Vasquez
Cc: exim-users@???
Subject: Re: [exim] Exim hangs on ldap search

On Mon, Jul 24, 2006 at 03:33:22PM -0400, Lou Vasquez wrote:
> Oddly enough that worked. I'd rather not leave ldap(-s) open but that
> at least points to the problem. I remove the s and it comes back, I

put
> the s in and it hangs after getting the cn. Whats really strange is
> that ldapauth works fine with ldaps (but I have to use cn, not

username
> for the bind) but not with ldap lookup.


How about this for a kludge/work-around:
Openldap (& maybe other ldap servers) has the ability to retrieve info
from other ldap servers.
Why not configure it to speak to another ldap over 'ldaps' (if you can
do it) and then
exim can speak to the local ldap (on the same machine) over 'ldap'
(which is prob reasonably
secure).

> Until I have time to download code and try patches and look into the
> code I'll probably go with my perl hack, but I'm still happy to try
> things with it.


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Alain Williams
Parliament Hill Computers Ltd.
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Lecturer.
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