Ralf Mattes wrote:
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
<die...@dkluenter.de> 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.
Online configuration is self-documenting. You are expected to read the
objectclass definition from the config schema.
- The documentation fails to mention some rather important prerequisits:
the need to load 'back_relay', the need to load 'rwm'.
Module loading is not specific to back-relay, rwm, or any other backend or
overlay, so there is no reason to mention it in their specific documentation.
Whether or not your build supports modules is a compile-time decision, made by
whoever built your binaries. Module loading is documented in the general slapd
config documentation, since it applies to anything, not just specific backends
or overlays.
- The documentation really should mention that a (miss-)configured database
can't be removed from the server. Better get it right the first time ...
:-)
Never test new configs on a production server. Always use a throwaway test
server.
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