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Re: Determining the master server
- To: OpenLDAP Software List <openldap-software@OpenLDAP.org>
- Subject: Re: Determining the master server
- From: Dave Horsfall <daveh@ci.com.au>
- Date: Mon, 2 May 2005 10:04:18 +1000 (EST)
- Archive: No
- In-reply-to: <4271F52D.9010809@symas.com>
- References: <20050429162739.U13333@mippet.ci.com.au> <64187.81.72.89.40.1114757352.squirrel@81.72.89.40> <4271F52D.9010809@symas.com>
On Fri, 29 Apr 2005, Howard Chu wrote:
> > I think the referral mechanism resulting from performing a write operation
> > on a slave is the intended mech. In 2.3 (actually, in HEAD; scheduled for
> > 2.3) you may browse the configuration in back-config ("cn=config") and see
> > if a server is a master or a slave;
> >
> Only the directory administrator has access to cn=config, so clients in
> general cannot do this.
The people asking for this are administrators themselves; I know they
could parse slapd.conf at runtime, but it would be nicer if the server
returned it (as it already has that knowledge).
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