dscl search in AD broken in 10.5.6?

[pme]

Hi,

we have a few scripts running to create home directories for our AD users on our OS X servers. Up until 10.5.6 they’ve worked great but now they don’t.

In the beginning we used:
dscl localhost list /Search/Users SMBHome | grep servername

That almost worked. But some of the newly created users didn’t show up. So we changed it to:
dscl localhost search /Search/Users SMBHome *servername*
Which both did a better adn faster search.

This has worked fine using all iterations of MOSXS from 10.4.11 to 10.5.5 (excluding 10.5.0 ;))

But now, using 10.5.6, the search doesn’t find anything. Using “list” doesn’t work better than it did before, leaving all new users behind.

Of course a:
dscl localhost read /Search/Users/username SMBHome
prints the home directory for any given user. Likewise using “Active Directory/All Domains/”, search/list doesn’t work but read does.

Is there anyone that can shed some light on this?

thanks

/P-M

[pme]

MacTroll wrote:

I’m assuming you have a large number of users in your domain?

No, not really. 1219 as of today.

If I replace the “Active Directory.dsplug” with version 1.6.2 (from 10.5.5) everything works as before. Is it a bug in the dsplug or is it a config thing in our AD?

thanks

/P-M

[pme]

pme wrote:

If I replace the “Active Directory.dsplug” with version 1.6.2 (from 10.5.5)

Correcting myself here: it’s plug version 1.6.2 from 10.5.4. Both 1.6.3 (from 10.5.5) and 1.6.4 (from 10.5.6) doesn’t work…

/P-M

[pme]

MacTroll wrote:

If you regress with a previous version of hte plugin and it works… that smells like a bug and you should file that.

I was asking the size of the AD as you could have been running into issues with paged LDAP responses. Typically AD will only give out 1000 records in response to a list. So you’d only be getting the records that match within the first 1000 records.

Bug filed. (ID# 6607362)

The mismatch between the “list” and “search” are definitely due to the paged response.

We’ve backed the servers depending on this search to version 1.6.2 of the .dsplug.

/P-M

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