Re: memberof overlay 2.4.08

[Marc Patermann <hans.moser@ofd-z.niedersachsen.de>]

Hi again,

Marc Patermann schrieb am 26.11.2010 11:36 Uhr:
> Pierangelo Masarati schrieb am 25.03.2008 18:52 Uhr:
> > LALOT Dominique wrote:
> > > I'm testing memberof overlay and I'd like to get it working properly 
> > > for a database migration
> > >
> > > My tests showed me that's it's working when adding members in groups, 
> > > but for an initial loading, it does not work.
> > Correct.
> This still seams to be true.
>
> > > I tested slapadd -q or slapadd without success. Could you tell us,
> > > or write something in the documentation to explain, the right way
> > > for an initial loading.
> > Currently, there is no solution besides writing a script that 
> > populates the memberOf attribute in the LDIF file.
> >
> > > When we will be in production, I imagine that  sometimes, we can get 
> > > out of sync between  members and memberof. What can we do in such case.
> > It should not happen.
> I have a lot of syncrepl consumers. For disaster recovery these are
> repopulated with slapadd and a recent provider dump.
> With overlay memberof this would not work any more, because the memberOf 
> references are lost on this consumer until the "member" object changes, 
> right?
As I found out, the memberOf attributes are 'slapcat'ed, too. So
a) I have to enable overlay memberof on the master too or
b) I have to take the dump from another slave/consumer to restore.
Right?

This seams manageable.

Sorry for the noise.

Marc