Am Thu, 15 Sep 2016 15:12:16 +0200 schrieb "Ralf Mattes" <[email protected]>:
> First, juat to be clear: thank you for your valuable help and please > don't take my comments personally. > > Am Donnerstag, 15. September 2016 09:46 CEST, Dieter Klünter > <[email protected]> schrieb: > > > > > > I _knew_ I read about that at some time. This (slapd-relay) looks > > > exactly like what I need. Unfortunately this means I need to to > > > dive down into the labyrinth of (not existing) dosumentation. > > > > Just read manual pages slapd-relay(5) and slapo-rwm(5) that is all > > the documentation you should need. > > That's how it should be, but in reality: > > - non of the documentation even mentions the "new" live > configuration. Ironically, every time someone postsher/his old-style > slapd configuration on this very list she/he's told "use the online > configuration". > > Oh, and changing from the old style configuration to the new one > is _not_ just an "add 'olc' in front of the parameters". For example > I can't find the rwm-suffixmassage parameter in the olc-Attributes. > > - The documentation fails to mention some rather important > prerequisits: the need to load 'back_relay', the need to load 'rwm'. > > - The documentation really should mention that a (miss-)configured > database can't be removed from the server. Better get it right the > first time ... :-) > > - While looking for more information I found out that the > documentation in the manpage (slapd-relay(5)) is _not_ the same as > the documentation in the source code: > > .../openldap-2.4.44/servers/slapd/back-relay/README > > mentions a "mapping" keyword that isn't mentioned in the manpage. > Oh, and no mention of the olc-variants either. > > BTW, the olcRelay attribute seems to be defined with the OMsDN > syntax which seems to prevent Apache Directory Studio to edit this > value to add the "mapping" keyword. > > O.k. enough ranting and on with configuration. That's why i still use slapd.conf for intial setup, and after final configuration transform slapd.conf into config database. slaptest -f /path/to/file -F path/to/directory, directory is most likely /etc/openldap/slapd.d -Dieter -- Dieter Klünter | Systemberatung http://sys4.de GPG Key ID: E9ED159B 53°37'09,95"N 10°08'02,42"E
