Re: olcSubordinate versus Chaining

[Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com>]

Warren Howard wrote:
> On 13/07/12 2:15 AM, Warren Howard wrote:
>> Dear all,
>>
>> I'm setting up a replicated directory service, so far I have a single 
>> provider and a single consumer with Syncrepl in refreshOnly mode.  The 
>> consumer is a complete shadow copy of the provider, ldap clients can 
>> read from the consumer but not write to the consumer because it is a 
>> shadow copy.  Next I would like "refer" ldap clients that wish to 
>> write to the consumer to the provider. Based on the notes here : 
>> http://www.openldap.org/doc/admin24/referrals.html, I would like to 
>> how to do this by using the olcSubordinate keyword. I've read the 
>> olcSubordinate section in slapd-config man page and I don't see a way 
>> forward and I'm not even sure that using olcSubordinate is the correct 
>> approach, since the steps described in 

olcSubordinate has nothing to do with referrals.

>> http://www.openldap.org/doc/admin24/overlays.html#Chaining appear more 
>> relevant to set up I'm attempting.

Yes.

>> Any guidance much appreciated.
>>
> Hi,
> 
> I'm just looking for a nod in the right direction.  I'll re-phrase my 
> question, how would you set up up a single provider (single master) with 
> one or more consumers (one or more slaves) so that clients which try to 
> write to a slave are able to do so because the slave handles the 
> referral to the master and the client knows not that the slave directory 
> it is connecting to is read-only?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> 
> Warren.
> 
> 


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