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Re: slapo-memberof and Replication

Hello Quanah,

Thanks for clarification.

> > That confuses me a little bit.
> > All replication on openLDAP are based on syncreplication (slurpd is
> > vanished a long time ago)
> > So what kind of replication means the manual page (-> "Replica servers")?
>
> It means that you run it in a replicated environment at your own risk.
> Unfortunately, there is no defined standard for the "memberOf"
> functionality (it's a MS hack) and so there's nothing that details how it
> should or shouldn't behave with replication.  In general, things work fine
> as long as:
>
> a) The server(s) never go into REFRESH
> and
> b) You never bring up a new replica with an empty database (which then does
> a full REFRESH)

That means, if I run in mirrormode, I can turn on the memberOf overlay
on the active openLDAP server and off on the slave.
Then REFESH ist supported?! In emegency case (hardware error) I can
make the mirror (manual) aktive an turn the overlay on?!

Thanks Meike