Re: some minor issues with the new ldif-config-style

[Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com>]

Wolfgang Hennerbichler wrote:
> On 21.01.2007, at 08:34, Howard Chu wrote:
> > In general, once the slapd.conf file has been converted to LDIF, you 
> > should never manually edit the configuration ever again. Do all 
> > subsequent changes through LDAP.
>
> Allright, will do. Already tested it, works really great!

> > > 3) This is the really interesting stuff: is it possible to start a
> > > "stupid" replication server with syncrepl, who only knows how to connect
>>> to the main server, and then syncs the schemas and parts of the config
>>> to itself? that would be cool, and I guess it can be done. Yet it's
>>> still dependend on question 1 :)

> > That is a desired feature, but we've explicitly disabled that in
> > OpenLDAP 2.3. It will probably be enabled in OpenLDAP 2.4, but it requires
>> some other enhancements to the syncrepl system before it can be done safely.

> Allright. Thanks a lot for your helpful answers! 

By the way, test049 was just added to CVS HEAD showing exactly how to do 
this. It starts with a bare minimum slave server that pulls its entire 
configuration and all database contents from a provider. You can play around 
with it to get an idea of what the 2.4 release will offer. This feature is 
most likely not in its final form; some type of filtering still needs to be 
developed to allow parts of the slave configuration to be different from the 
provider.
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