Re: [Proftpd-devel] Patch suggestion for auto UID/GID lookup in mod_ldap

[TJ S. <tj...@ca...>]

> recently I needed to configure ProFTPd to authenticate users in Microsoft AD
> domain. I think it's a well-known fact that AD LDAP directory by default
> does not contain any "uidNumber" and "gidNumber" (or equivalent) attribute.
> If you configure system-wide authentication to AD with sssd (according to
> many guides available on the net), it can use a special algorithm to map
> "objectSid" values present in the AD directory to UIDs and GIDs, therefore
> "producing" specific UID/GID values for each user.

Going through some old emails, I ran across this.  I've filed a GitHub issue for tracking this:

  https://github.com/proftpd/proftpd/issues/1716

Cheers,
TJ