Re: The real suffix alias?

["Pierangelo Masarati" <ando@sys-net.it>]

> Hi,
>
> I'm using 2.1.25. What I'm trying to do here is to setup an "alias"
> suffix,  and make it looks and acts like real.  I hope that can ease the
> effort to  change the database suffix.
>
> Before this I used a home-made script with sed and slapcat/ slapadd to
> change  suffix of the whole database, and find out not only slow, it
> will have big  trouble with a base64 encoded attribute.
>
> The "suffixalias" looks like a good option, but it seems can only return
> the  real base instead of the aliased one, and was not included in the
> 2.1.25  stable release.  So I try back-ldap.
>
> The following piece of slapd.conf makes server hang upon receiving a
> request with base "dc=test,dc=com".
>
> So I checked FAQ http://www.openldap.org/faq/data/cache/532.html
> and found out that: "The virtual naming context and the real naming
> context  cannot be used as suffixes of another backend."

I wrote that note long ago, and I think it is no longer valid;
however, try to switch the two backends, and see if it works.

p.

>
> I guess that is the reason. Is there any way to achieve this?  Thanks in
>  advance!
>
> #######################################################################
> # ldap backend
> #######################################################################
>
> database        ldap
> lastmod         off
> suffix          "dc=test,dc=com"
> uri             "ldap:///";
> suffixmassage  "dc=test,dc=com" "dc=yourdomain,dc=com"
>
> #######################################################################
> # bdb database definitions
> #######################################################################
>
> database        bdb
> suffix          "dc=yourdomain,dc=com"
> directory       "/share/HDA_DATA/openldap/ldapdb"
> # Indices to maintain
> index   objectClass     eq
> index   cn,sn,mail,uid  pres,eq,approx,sub
>
>
> Regards,
> John Lee


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