On Tue, Sep 02, 2014 at 01:50:46PM +0200, Pavel Reichl wrote:
On 08/20/2014 03:20 PM, Jakub Hrozek wrote:
>Hi,
>
>with the current SSSD code, an LDAP search that results in a referral
>fails completely with EIO and usually sends the whole backend to
>offline mode. I think this is too strict and if the admin chose to
>ignore referrals, we should just skip these results.
>
>John Hodrien in particular was hit by us treating referrals as fatal in
>environment where he needs to restrict the search scope by using custom
>LDAP search bases.
>
>Also, in cases where Global Catalog support is disabled or GC not available
>and a group contains a user from a trusted domain, trying to search for
>this DN yields a referral.
>
>Attached is a patch that ignores referrals when the admin set
>ldap_referrals=false in the config file.
>
>Given the sdap async code is quite old and I don't remember all the
>use-cases, I CC-ed Stephen directly to get some advice. Is there any
>risk in ignoring referrals?
>
>
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