ou=groups is not a mandatory convention, and indeed at Zilics Information...

ou=groups is not a mandatory convention, and indeed at Zilics Information Systems that I went for a trouble-shooting, it was using another name.

So just search from a broader base by default.

git-svn-id: https://hudson.dev.java.net/svn/hudson/trunk/hudson/main@12183 71c3de6d-444a-0410-be80-ed276b4c234a

core/src/main/java/hudson/security/LDAPSecurityRealm.java

@@ -199,7 +199,7 @@ public class LDAPSecurityRealm extends SecurityRealm {
      */
     private void correctAuthoritiesPopulator(WebApplicationContext appContext) {
         DeferredCreationLdapAuthoritiesPopulator factory = (DeferredCreationLdapAuthoritiesPopulator) appContext.getBean("authoritiesPopulator");
-        factory.setGroupSearchBase(groupSearchBase==null ? "ou=groups" : groupSearchBase);
+        factory.setGroupSearchBase(groupSearchBase==null ? "" : groupSearchBase);
     }
     
     /**