Re: LDAP replication

["Marjan Knauer" <knauer@torra.de>]

> Must this user exist in the LDAP?  What I did is just
> add the updatedn and the access on the slave side, but
> I didn't have create any user in the LDAP database.

you have to add the replication user manually into the
slaves db before starting the replication.

> The master and slave slapd.conf is the same except:
>
> Master
> ------
> replogfile /var/lib/ldap/master-ldap.replog
> replica uri=ldap://slave.testing.com:389
>        binddn="cn=Replicator,l=Singapore,o=Testing"
>        bindmethod=simple credentials="testpassword"
>
> Slave
> -----
> updatedn "cn=Replicator,l=SG,o=Testing"
> updateref ldap://master.testing.com:389
> access to *
>   by self write
>   by dn.exact="cn=Replicator,l=Singapore,o=Testing"
>   by * write

master: binddn="cn=Replicator,l=Singapore,o=Testing"
slave: updatedn "cn=Replicator,l=SG,o=Testing"
this is not exactly the same! Change SG into Singapore!

> What I don't quite understand from the Admin Guide is
> that where do I put the crendentials="testpassword" in
> the slave?

give the manually added user a password. you can use
the slaves rootdn and/or a client...

> What I'm afraid is that they're of different version. 
> Master is 2.1.30, and Slave is 2.2.13

should not be a problem!