Re: Multiple syncrepl problems

[Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com>]

Darren Gamble wrote:

> Good day,
>
>  
>
> > > Could both the Admin Guide and man pages both be corrected 
> > >      
> > to reflect these
> >    
> >
> > > changes, please, if they will be permanent?  The slapd.conf 
> > >      
> > man page still
> >    
> >
> > > says "It is recommended that the rootdn only be specified 
> > >      
> > when needed (such
> >    
> >
> > > as when initially populating a database)", which I'm sure a 
> > >      
> > large number of
> >    
> >
> > > other admins have tried to follow.
> > >
> > >
> > >      
>
>  
>
> > That comment is essentially correct - use a rootdn only when 
> > needed. The 
> > fact is that with syncrepl, the rootdn is always needed.
> >    
>
> Thanks for all of this helpful information.  We should be good to go now.
>
> It certainly would have been nice to know, back when we got started with
> this, that a rootdn is always needed with syncrepl.  This detail is not
> documented anywhere that I can find in the man page or Admin guide, and
> certainly not in syncrepl section.  Even a note under the rootdn or syncrepl
> directive in the man page would have saved us a lot of time.
>  
Please file an ITS requesting these documentation updates.

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