Hi everyone - thanks for the great replies!!!! To try to clarify, I currently have a netscape server on port 389. I now have a openldap 2.3.27 set up with all the data port 900. I The ns is set up as o=x,c=us. The openldap is set up as dc=group1,dc=x,dc=y. If I do a ldapsearch on port 900 with a base of o=x,c=us, I want it to return the result with a base of dc=group1,dc=x,dc=y.
database relay suffix "o=x,c=us" relay "dc=group1,dc=x,dc=y" database bdb suffix "dc=group1,dc=x,dc=y" ... and when I try to start up the openldap, I get: 'cannot find database of relay "dc=group1,dc=x,dc=y" in "relay <db> [message]". Another way of looking at what I want to do is: 1) if the outlook base dn is o=x,c=us, I want this to work on the server with dc=group1,dc=x,dc=y. Right now, a lot of our users have the base dn and we want to make the migration easier for them. 2) if I do: ldapsearch -h host1 -p 389 -b o=x,c=us uid=userx cn on the ns port, I would get back the expect results - the ns server has that base dn. ldapsearch -h host2 -p 900 -b o=x,c=us uid=userx cn will fail, for host to has the base of dc=group1,dc=x,dc=y. If I do: ldapsearch -h host2 -p 900 uid=userx cn then it returns what I expect, for dc=group1,dc=x,dc=y is the default base dn. I hope this all makes sense. Thanks for any help! -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Buchan Milne Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2006 7:08 AM To: [email protected] Cc: Douglas B. Jones Subject: Re: changing the base dn On Tuesday 17 October 2006 17:40, Douglas B. Jones wrote: > If I have an old base dn of uid=jdoe,o=x,c=us and I want > to redirect all such client queries to uid=jdoes,dc=group1,dc=x,dc=y; > what is the best way to do this? The old base is on an old netscape > server and the new one is on openldap 2.3.27. Thanks! Assuming you have migrated all of the content from o=x,c=us on the old Netscape server to live under dc=group1,dc=x,dc=y on the OpenLDAP server, which you would like to have visible to clients searching the new server under o=x,c=us, you should consider using back-relay as the backend for o=x,c=us. See the man page for slapd-relay for details. Regards, Buchan -- Buchan Milne ISP Systems Specialist - Monitoring/Authentication Team Leader B.Eng,RHCE(803004789010797),LPIC-2(LPI000074592)
