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Re: Single master/multislave and passwords

To: Bryan Payne <bpayne@speedfc.com>
Subject: Re: Single master/multislave and passwords
From: Jonathan Clarke <jclarke@linagora.com>
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 17:24:10 +0200
Cc: openldap-technical@openldap.org
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Bryan Payne a Ãcrit :
> Our master is in dallas. One slave is in ohio. Our ohio users bind to
> their local server for speed's sake. This is obviously a problem if they
> change their password. Is there a way to bind locally but when it comes
> to updating passwords, it inform the master instead?

I think you're looking for the updateref parameter. That will return a
referral to clients telling them to contact the master for updates.

If you want to take this further and make it transparent (seem like the
slave accepts writes), take a look at slapo-chain.

Regards,
Jonathan

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