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Re: Q: accesslog and replicated changes



Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote:
> --On Thursday, April 14, 2016 9:25 AM +0200 Ulrich Windl
> <Ulrich.Windl@rz.uni-regensburg.de> wrote:
>> I have configured accesslog to log all changes to an LDAP server, and
>> that seems to work for months. Recently I noticed that that there wee no
>> new entries for more than a week. Usually there are several entries per
>> day, because with password policy every bad login attempt is logged. As
>> we have three multi-master servers, I wonder whether changes made to
>> other servers and replicated to the local server will be logged by
>> accesslog also. Are the password policy updates (which are somewhat
>> special) also replicated to all servers?
> 
> Have you read over the slapo-ppolicy(5) man page?
> 
> <http://www.openldap.org/software/man.cgi?query=slapo-ppolicy&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=OpenLDAP+2.4-Release&format=html>
> 
> 
> The "OPERATIONAL ATTRIBUTES" section is interesting.  I can't tell how it's
> supposed to operate in an MMR environment.

Probably Ulrich is referring to the internal write operations sent by
slapo-ppolicy setting attribute 'pwdFailureTime'. Those are indeed also written
to accesslog database. I also use this to detect failed logins in case I don't
want to log all bind operations.

Ciao, Michael.

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