Re: Encrypting replication password

[Matthew J Backes <lucca@csun.edu>]

On Wed, 2 Oct 2002 21:16:44 +0200 (CEST)
Rick van Rein <rick@vanrein.org> wrote:

> It's how apache does the password thing on certificates.  But with
> apache, the whole service cannot bootstrap without admin
> interference.  LDAP would be in a more fortunate position, where
> only replication lags behind if the administrator hasn't entered the
> "replicator" password.

Slapd really doesn't care about replica credentials.  Slurpd is what
needs them, as it is slurpd that does the connecting to each replica.

You could always have a simplified replica section in slapd.conf and
point slurpd to a more detailed version of slapd.conf via -f.

Matthew Backes
lucca@csun.edu