Warren Howard wrote: > On 13/07/12 2:15 AM, Warren Howard wrote: >> Dear all, >> >> I'm setting up a replicated directory service, so far I have a single >> provider and a single consumer with Syncrepl in refreshOnly mode. The >> consumer is a complete shadow copy of the provider, ldap clients can >> read from the consumer but not write to the consumer because it is a >> shadow copy. Next I would like "refer" ldap clients that wish to >> write to the consumer to the provider. Based on the notes here : >> http://www.openldap.org/doc/admin24/referrals.html, I would like to >> how to do this by using the olcSubordinate keyword. I've read the >> olcSubordinate section in slapd-config man page and I don't see a way >> forward and I'm not even sure that using olcSubordinate is the correct >> approach, since the steps described in
olcSubordinate has nothing to do with referrals. >> http://www.openldap.org/doc/admin24/overlays.html#Chaining appear more >> relevant to set up I'm attempting. Yes. >> Any guidance much appreciated. >> > Hi, > > I'm just looking for a nod in the right direction. I'll re-phrase my > question, how would you set up up a single provider (single master) with > one or more consumers (one or more slaves) so that clients which try to > write to a slave are able to do so because the slave handles the > referral to the master and the client knows not that the slave directory > it is connecting to is read-only? > > Regards, > > > Warren. > > -- -- Howard Chu CTO, Symas Corp. http://www.symas.com Director, Highland Sun http://highlandsun.com/hyc/ Chief Architect, OpenLDAP http://www.openldap.org/project/
