On 03/13/2012 04:09 PM, Petr Spacek wrote:
Hello list,

I'm looking for way how to bypass nsslapd-sizelimit and nsslapd-timelimit for persistent search made by specific user (or anything made by that user).

Please, can you point me to right place in documentation about persistent search/user specific settings in 389? I googled for a while, but I can't find exact way how to accomplish this.
You can set user-based limits as shown here:

http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Directory_Server/9.0/html/Administration_Guide/User_Account_Management-Setting_Resource_Limits_Based_on_the_Bind_DN.html#Setting_Resource_Limits_Based_on_the_Bind_DN-Setting_Resource_Limits_Using_the_Command_Line

I found attributes nsSizeLimit and nsTimeLimit in http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Directory_Server/9.0/html-single/Schema_Reference/index.html#nsPagedSizeLimit , but I'm not sure how to deploy them.


If bypassing is not possible in 389:
Is there any way how to enumerate all records from given subtree part-by-part? (My guess: VLV or something similar.)
There is VLV, and there is also simple-paged results. Both are methods that can be used to enumerate through search results in chunks. VLV requires explicit configuration of a VLV index for the exact search that you want to perform ahead of time. Simple-paged results can be used with any search. Here are some details on using simple-paged results:

http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Directory_Server/9.0/html/Administration_Guide/using-simple-paged-results.html

I know only basics about persistent search and next to nothing about VLV, so sorry if I'm completely wrong.


--- Background / why I needed this / long story ---
FreeIPA project has LDAP plugin for BIND. This plugin pulls DNS records from LDAP database and populates BIND's internal memory with them. (Homepage: https://fedorahosted.org/bind-dyndb-ldap/)

This plugin can use persistent search, which enables reflecting changes in LDAP inside BIND immediately.

At this moment, plugin after start do persistent search for all DNS records. This single query can lead to tens of thousands records - and of course fails, because nssldapd-sizelimit stops that.

Another problem arises with databases smaller than sizelimit - query is ended after timelimit and has to be re-established. It leads to periodical re-downloading whole DNS DB.

Question is:
 It's possible to bypass limits for this connection/user
I think setting the limits based on your bind DN should work.

-NGK
OR
 plugin is completely broken by design?


Thanks for you time.

Petr^2 Spacek  @  Red Hat  @  Brno office
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