Re: removing global_schemacheck and SLAPD_LASTMOD flags

["Kurt D. Zeilenga" <Kurt@OpenLDAP.org>]

Things are going to get even more interesting for back-ldap/meta
when clients are allowed to modify timestamps and such...
see test037-manage for examples of modifies I intend to
allow via the manage mechanism (not yet sure whether that
mechanism will be ManageDsaIT or some other control).

Kurt

At 01:45 PM 5/11/2005, Pierangelo Masarati wrote:
>Kurt D. Zeilenga wrote:
>
>>I have less of a problem with a flag programmatically set
>>by a particular backend than a flag which can be set by
>>configuration (in addition to being programmatically set).
>> 
>
>In that case, again as far as I remember, the possibility to configure it was nice because one in principle could use back-ldap to filter and massage replication data; in that case, timestamps and modifier's name needed to be passed.  Unless we instruct (how?) the back-meta that's to behave like a shadow database, I think the possibility to enable/disable these attrs needs to be given to the administrator.  In any case, it doesn't need to be the "lastmod {on|off}" directive; it can be some other means to select what attrs to allow/strip much like it's done in syncrepl.  See for instance the suggestion of <http://www.openldap.org/its/index.cgi/Development?id=3711>, i.e. use the "attrs" field of back-ldap's URI to indicate what attrs to allow.  
>In this case, "ldap://host/?*,createTimestamp,modifyTimestamp,cretaorsName,modifiersName?sub"; would do the trick.
>
>p.
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