Re: Database Replication - stumped

["Rob Hall" <rob@desynched.net>]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Quanah Gibson-Mount" <quanah@stanford.edu>
To: "Rob Hall" <rob@desynched.net>; <openldap-software@OpenLDAP.org>
Sent: Monday, May 22, 2006 7:49 PM
Subject: Re: Database Replication - stumped


> --On Monday, May 22, 2006 4:59 PM -0400 Rob Hall <rob@desynched.net> 
> wrote:
>
> > I have that ACL on both master and slave - I want the slave to be able to
> > send changes back to the master.
> > I'm running openldap-2.3.20.
> > Can you expand further on syncrepl?
>
> Slaves don't take changes, that is why they are slaves.  You can use 
> "back-chain" to have a slave send a modification request to the master, 
> but it is still going to use the credentials of what is trying to make the 
> change.  Whatever you allow to make changes to the master should probably 
> be different than your replication dn.
>
>
> syncrepl is an alternative replication method that is replacing slurpd. 
> You can read all about it at the admin guide.
>
>
> --Quanah
For the record, I read up on syncrepl, configured it, and it works. Seems 
easier to get working than slurpd as well. I have database replication going 
on now. Thanks for the help.