2014-02-11 19:59 GMT+01:00 Cyril Grosjean <[email protected]>:

>
> I use a couple of OpenLDAP 2.4.36 servers in a multi-master replication
> setup.
> Write operations are sent to a single server, and then replicated to the
> second one.
>
> I sometimes have write operations "peaks" of about 900 operations
> (modifications of the pwdFailureTime attribute mainly) per hour.
> The number of bind failures per user is neither limited nor reset yet and
> I especially noticed a script that connects to the directory with the
> same service account and (wrong) password. So, until this script is
> modified with the right password (which will take time, unfortunately),
> it can generate tons of failures, and thus tons of replications.
>
> I noticed a several minutes replication delay between the directories, at
> peak time, when comparing the contextCSN attributes.
> It looks to me a big delay with regards to the number of modifications.
> Anything I could do to limit that delay ?
>
>
>
You may face this bug: http://www.openldap.org/its/index.cgi?findid=7788

To limit pwdFailureTime, you had to attach a password policy to the account
with a max failure number, else number of values will grow over the time.

Clément.

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