Item13939: Switch to turn off LDAP referrals

Nice to see there is functionality to handle LDAP referrals in ldapContrib, however it would be even nicer if there was a switch to turn off that feature.

Currently with 2.0.3 I'm seeing my LDAP query successfully getting its data but then going off chasing a referral which the MicroSoft admins have misconfigured resulting in a error code being returned, then weird stuff happening according to the Apache logs resulting in a failed login.

I have a workaround for now but I'd rather see a switch in the config.

Thanks, Arthur.

-- ArthurGouros - 03 Feb 2016

Would you mind to share your patch?

-- MichaelDaum - 03 Feb 2016

Hi Michael,

I didn't actually patch the code, I just tricked the ldap referral into returning nothing using external means.

What would be good to see in this module would be a parameter in LocalSite.cfg that looks like this:

Foswiki::cfg{Ldap}{IgnoreReferrals} = 0;

This would preserve existing functionality and allow people with sites like mine that return the correct data in the first ldap query to set it to a value of 1 and prevent ldap from doing any further lookups.

Thanks, Arthur.

-- ArthurGouros - 03 Feb 2016

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