Re: translucent overlay and local objects?

[David Arroyo <david.a.arroyo@gmail.com>]

Hi Eugene,

All changes you make to a translucent proxy will be written to the
local database. They are not written upstream. I think you will want
to mess with the chain overlay to produce an affect like that.

I have been able to achieve what you are proposing by creating a
subordinate database for my entirely new objects. The translucent
proxy serves and modifies objects at dc=example,dc=org, and the
subordinate database lives at ou=ext,dc=example,dc=org.

Cheers,
David

On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 9:10 AM, Eugene Vilensky <evilensky@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 5:15 PM, Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com> wrote:
>>
>> Read slapo-translucent(5).
>
> Thanks, it's a good read.  Since it only mentions the remote Search
> operation, my next questions might be moot...
>
>>> but is it possible to
>>> store entities locally using the translucent overlay?
>>
>>
>> No.
>
> Will entities created against the translucent overlay be created in
> the 'upstream' directory, provided our bind dn to that directory has
> necessary privileges?
>
>>> The overlay works for what we are trying to do when it comes to search
>>> and modifying attributes on an entry, but I would like to create an
>>> entire local groupofnames, consisting of remote UIDs.
>>
>> That is not supported.
>
> Would it be found anywhere on the roadmap?
>
> Thanks again,
> Eugene
>