Re: [389-users] Limit on number of databases per directory server instance

2015-05-19 Thread Michael Gettes
I believe there is no limitation in the code. However, the limits will apply when it comes to CPU, memory, disk, network utilization, and workload. If you are smart about what you do, you can put a lot onto a single server but you also have to watch it to ensure proper administration and

Re: [389-users] Retrieve list of groups that a user belongs to

2015-04-06 Thread Michael Gettes
lots of ways of doing this… what Mark notes is one way. if you don’t have memberOf or isMemberOf attributes managed: obtain DN of object in question. Search for (|((objectclass=groupOfNames)(member=USERDN))((objectclass=groupOfUniqueNames)(uniquemember=USERDN))) if a user is a member of a

Re: [389-users] Please take an action: 389 Directory Server 1.2.11.X Discontinued for EL6

2014-11-06 Thread Michael Gettes
As I have been vocal in the past regarding advanced features in the 1.2.11.X line… I have downgraded from 1.2.11.32 to 1.2.11.15-47 in my test environment. Initial testing shows things going quite well. I expect to migrate my prod environment to 1.2.11.15-47 next week. Thanks much for the

Re: [389-users] How relevant is Poodlebleed Bug to 389?

2014-10-16 Thread Michael Gettes
update… this advice (quoted below) ended up being the simplest path to take. Please note on none of my DS was nsTLS1 an existing attribute so I had to add this attribute to the cn=encryption,cn=config object. I had to do a “service dirsrv restart” as doing a restart from console would only

Re: [389-users] How relevant is Poodlebleed Bug to 389?

2014-10-15 Thread Michael Gettes
Hi David (et al), what is the right way to do this in the DS? (i am on 1.2.11.32) i see under cn=config there is cn=encryption and there are nsSSL3Ciphers and nsSSLSupportCiphers (lots of these). The documentation just shows the simple on/off for SSL/TLS. For me, my admin server has SSL on

Re: [389-users] installing 389-ds-base-1.3.2.2 on CentOS using repositories

2014-09-16 Thread Michael Gettes
Rich, as i choose to be on the bleeding edge, is it a good or bad idea to run 1.3.3 on rhel 6? /mrg On Sep 16, 2014 8:54 AM, Rich Megginson rmegg...@redhat.com wrote: On 09/16/2014 08:45 AM, Vesa Alho wrote: On 16/09/14 15:02, Luigi Santangelo wrote: Hi all, I'm trying to install

Re: [389-users] nsslapd-listen-backlog-size on 1.2.11.30

2014-09-04 Thread Michael Gettes
Michael Gettes wrote: Hi Noriko, following instructions from the port389.org site and your email - i got the code ./configure --host=x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu --build=x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu --program-prefix= --prefix=/usr --exec-prefix=/usr --bindir=/usr/bin --sbindir=/usr/sbin --sysconfdir

Re: [389-users] nsslapd-listen-backlog-size on 1.2.11.30

2014-09-03 Thread Michael Gettes
in the next day or so then I will wait. thank you so much! /mrg On Sep 2, 2014, at 8:12 PM, Noriko Hosoi nho...@redhat.com wrote: There was a backport error. We will release 1.2.11.31 as soon as possible. Sorry about this inconvenience. --noriko Michael Gettes wrote: I’m trying to set

Re: [389-users] [389-announce] Announcing the revised port389.org wiki

2014-08-27 Thread Michael Gettes
+1 - this is much nicer and easier to find stuff. Thank you so much for the new site! /mrg On Aug 27, 2014, at 10:33 AM, Andrey Ivanov andrey.iva...@polytechnique.fr wrote: Hi Mark, very nice work indeed, the new site is clear and straightforward. I have a small question about it.

Re: [389-users] Version differences 1.2.11.29 vs 1.3.x

2014-07-10 Thread Michael Gettes
what is the supported version for RHEL7? We are considering moving to RHEL7. thanks! /mrg On Jul 10, 2014, at 12:50 PM, Noriko Hosoi nho...@redhat.com wrote: Groten, Ryan wrote: I’m a little confused about the different versions of 389 that are available. I followed the documentation on

Re: [389-users] 1.2.11.30 ETA?

2014-07-07 Thread Michael Gettes
On Jul 7, 2014, at 11:25 AM, Rich Megginson rmegg...@redhat.com wrote: On 07/07/2014 08:45 AM, Michael Gettes wrote: Rich, if you mean 3 months for 1.2.11.30, 3 months for RHEL 6.6, give or take, and as always, subject to change. That is, don't take this as an official Red Hat(tm

Re: [389-users] 1.2.11.30 ETA?

2014-07-07 Thread Michael Gettes
Rich, if you mean 3 months for 1.2.11.30, then i might consider building this for my test environment - which is somewhat active. If you think this would be helpful. /mrg On Jul 7, 2014, at 10:36 AM, Rich Megginson rmegg...@redhat.com wrote: On 07/03/2014 05:13 PM, Timothy Pollard wrote:

Re: [389-users] db2bak.pl error with changelogdb

2014-05-14 Thread Michael Gettes
this kinda brings up a long-standing question in my mind… what’s the “best” way to back things up? ok, let’s agree we need to know more about what’s the problem we are trying to solve. For me, i’d like to keep this somewhat generic to hopefully make this a useful discussion. Assuming

Re: [389-users] db2bak.pl error with changelogdb

2014-05-14 Thread Michael Gettes
...@boreham.org wrote: On 5/14/2014 3:11 PM, Michael Gettes wrote: of course, you can have yet another ldap server lying around not being used by apps and it’s purpose is to dump the store periodically, but that may not be part of you what want to achieve with disparate locations

Re: [389-users] encryption and load balancing

2014-05-12 Thread Michael Gettes
no need for wildcard certs… use the Subject Alt Name. Works fine. Been doing it for years. certutil supports it as well. /mrg On May 12, 2014, at 12:08 PM, David Boreham david_l...@boreham.org wrote: On 5/12/2014 9:53 AM, Elizabeth Jones wrote: Do the certs have to have the server

Re: [389-users] glue entry problem

2014-04-23 Thread Michael Gettes
inspect the mail headers - you can remove yourself as is the case with most mailing lists these days. /mrg On Apr 23, 2014, at 10:38 AM, David Hall da...@rocketcommunications.co.uk wrote: Hi, Please remove me from this list. Thank you, David On 23 Apr 2014, at 15:14, Elizabeth

Re: [389-users] LDAP import

2014-04-15 Thread Michael Gettes
no, you could get rid of 7.1. if you read the deployment docs, you should look at it from the perspective of running one 389 server as o=Company configured to chain to another 389 server where the real data is in ou=Company,dc=hq,blah,blah if all this is too much for you, then you may want to

Re: [389-users] 1.2.11.29 prediction?

2014-04-05 Thread Michael Gettes
On Apr 3, 2014, at 11:48 AM, Rich Megginson rmegg...@redhat.com wrote: I'm not sure what you mean by what's available in the repo vs. what's available by source”. ya know, i am not really sure either. but you’re response reinforces in my mind that something weird is going on here and i

Re: [389-users] 1.2.11.29 prediction?

2014-04-03 Thread Michael Gettes
On Apr 3, 2014, at 11:13 AM, Rich Megginson rmegg...@redhat.com wrote: On 04/03/2014 08:53 AM, Michael Gettes wrote: Hi all, I recognize 389 is a community project and asking for timelines can be problematic. Right now, I am sorta stuck between a rock and a hard place. In production, I

Re: [389-users] 1.2.11.29 prediction?

2014-04-03 Thread Michael Gettes
Yeah, I hear what you’re saying. 47758 is due to running bleeding edge, i get it. but i had to go there cuz I was having problems with objects getting messed up with .15 in production and even .25 in test and I went to .28 which had the SASL fix on top of .26 which fixed all object problems.

Re: [389-users] Operations Error on object

2014-03-27 Thread Michael Gettes
I have good news to report… I updated to 1.2.11.28-3 and the problems went away - no need to even export/import replicas. Thank you 389 developers! You guys are awesome! /mrg On Mar 26, 2014, at 5:48 PM, Michael Gettes get...@gmail.com wrote: I am continuing to pursue this problem… I

Re: [389-users] Operations Error on object

2014-03-26 Thread Michael Gettes
it will. It will still be a mystery as to why this happened and what the “right” way out of this problem would be. /mrg On Mar 25, 2014, at 6:12 PM, Michael Gettes get...@gmail.com wrote: 389-Directory/1.2.11.15 B2013.238.2155 starting up Linux 2.6.32-431.5.1.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP Fri Jan 10 14:46:43 EST 2014 x86_64

[389-users] Operations Error on object

2014-03-25 Thread Michael Gettes
389-Directory/1.2.11.15 B2013.238.2155 starting up Linux 2.6.32-431.5.1.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP Fri Jan 10 14:46:43 EST 2014 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux I have an object which I am unable to operate on. I try to modify it or delete it and I get err=1 (Operations Error). it looks like:

[389-users] paged results on large results sets and memory

2014-02-14 Thread Michael Gettes
I did some searching to try and answer the following question and the answer is not apparent to me. I have a directory with hundreds of thousands of entries. I have an app which, due to its behavior, needs to be able to search for very large sets of users but I don’t want it to be able to get

Re: [389-users] paged results on large results sets and memory

2014-02-14 Thread Michael Gettes
for. /mrg On Feb 14, 2014, at 4:13 PM, Rich Megginson rmegg...@redhat.com wrote: On 02/14/2014 02:04 PM, Michael Gettes wrote: I did some searching to try and answer the following question and the answer is not apparent to me. I have a directory with hundreds of thousands of entries. I have

Re: [389-users] paged results on large results sets and memory

2014-02-14 Thread Michael Gettes
well, i guess this was not a simple a question as i thought. i need to do some testing. /mrg On Feb 14, 2014, at 4:55 PM, Rich Megginson rmegg...@redhat.com wrote: On 02/14/2014 02:52 PM, Michael Gettes wrote: i guess i wasn’t clear in my question - i am not seeing a problem with paged

[389-users] hang on 1.2.11.15

2013-12-11 Thread Michael Gettes
389-Directory/1.2.11.15 B2013.238.21552 MMR master servers (this hang happened on one of the masters) along with 3 read-only replicas.Linux 2.6.32-358.18.1.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP Fri Aug 2 17:04:38 EDT 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux389-admin.x86_641.1.29-1.el6

[389-users] 389 1.3 - something to consider

2013-11-08 Thread Michael Gettes
As I currently understand things, 389 1.2 is available via RPM dist channels (including epel test using rmeggins people repo) and 1.3 is available by source tarball. due to how my organization handles firewall access, it is quite the PITA to build network source based software which makes it

Re: [389-users] 389 1.3 - something to consider

2013-11-08 Thread Michael Gettes
On Nov 8, 2013, at 4:50 PM, Rich Megginson rmegg...@redhat.com wrote: On 11/08/2013 02:10 PM, Michael Gettes wrote: As I currently understand things, 389 1.2 is available via RPM dist channels (including epel test using rmeggins people repo) . . . and really isn't fully supported. My main

Re: [389-users] hung 389 master 389-Directory/1.2.11.15 B2013.238.2155

2013-10-09 Thread Michael Gettes
Here is the stack trace per your instructions… i will be sure to get such traces in the future. got the gcore for just in case. /mrg stacktrace.20131009.gz Description: GNU Zip compressed data On Oct 9, 2013, at 11:22 AM, Michael R. Gettes get...@gmail.com wrote: 389-Directory/1.2.11.15

[389-users] 389 crash 1.2.11.15-22.el6_4

2013-10-02 Thread Michael Gettes
We had a crash early this morning on one of our masters (MMR with 2 servers, 3 replicas connected to each). Nothing in the errors log. The service was restarted and has not crashed since. From syslog we have: kernel: ns-slapd[18143]: segfault at 0 ip 7f43d5eeaad6 sp 7f437dbedf38

Re: [389-users] 389 crash 1.2.11.15-22.el6_4

2013-10-02 Thread Michael Gettes
, Rich Megginson rmegg...@redhat.com wrote: On 10/02/2013 08:22 AM, Michael Gettes wrote: We had a crash early this morning on one of our masters (MMR with 2 servers, 3 replicas connected to each). Nothing in the errors log. The service was restarted and has not crashed since. From syslog we

Re: [389-users] 389 crash 1.2.11.15-22.el6_4

2013-10-02 Thread Michael Gettes
Fantastic! Thank you! /mrg On Oct 2, 2013, at 10:55 AM, Rich Megginson rmegg...@redhat.com wrote: On 10/02/2013 08:49 AM, Michael Gettes wrote: Thanks. Will get the debug info established on all of our servers. I was looking for this info and didn't realize it was buried in the FAQ

Re: [389-users] 389 and snmp

2013-10-02 Thread Michael Gettes
I get nothing on adding .6.1 /mrg On Oct 2, 2013, at 11:20 AM, Nathan Kinder nkin...@redhat.com wrote: On 09/30/2013 04:56 PM, Michael R. Gettes wrote: I have the ldap-agent working. All I see is snmpwalk -v 1 -c public localhost .1.3.6.1.4.1.2312 SNMPv2-SMI::enterprises.2312.6.5.1.1.389

Re: [389-users] logconv.pl backward compatibility?

2013-09-25 Thread Michael Gettes
is critical information to fix apps or provide additional indices. /mrg On Sep 16, 2013, at 4:01 PM, Rich Megginson rmegg...@redhat.com wrote: On 09/16/2013 01:58 PM, Michael Gettes wrote: Hi, I am currently on 389-ds-base 1.2.11.15-22.el6_4 and I am running logconv.pl on 5.5M line log file

Re: [389-users] logconv.pl backward compatibility?

2013-09-25 Thread Michael Gettes
: On 09/25/2013 09:34 AM, Michael Gettes wrote: Rich, thanks again for pointing out where to get the latest logconv.pl. I made the following minor changes to deal with my gzipped log files and the use of an initialized variable $ip 421a422 $files[$count] = /bin/zcat $files[$count

Re: [389-users] Problem with permissions in RHEL6

2013-09-16 Thread Michael Gettes
we run 389 as nobody and I recommend others do it as well if it meets your operational needs. /mrg On Sep 16, 2013, at 10:57 AM, Predrag Zecevic [Unix Systems Administrator] predrag.zece...@2e-systems.com wrote: Hi, LDAP server should not be running as nobody... Which user account you

[389-users] logconv.pl to support .gz files

2013-09-16 Thread Michael Gettes
I am using logconv.pl from 389-de-base 1.2.11.15-22.el6_4 I made a simple mod to allow it to use gzipped files as input i don't know if this is supported in a later release but i figured i would provide the simple change diff logconv.pl logconv.pl.orig 348,349d347 $files[$count] =

Re: [389-users] logconv.pl backward compatibility?

2013-09-16 Thread Michael Gettes
oh cool! Thanks! /mrg On Sep 16, 2013, at 4:01 PM, Rich Megginson rmegg...@redhat.com wrote: On 09/16/2013 01:58 PM, Michael Gettes wrote: Hi, I am currently on 389-ds-base 1.2.11.15-22.el6_4 and I am running logconv.pl on 5.5M line log file. At the end it hangs up - in a loop forever

[389-users] logconv.pl backward compatibility?

2013-09-16 Thread Michael Gettes
Hi, I am currently on 389-ds-base 1.2.11.15-22.el6_4 and I am running logconv.pl on 5.5M line log file. At the end it hangs up - in a loop forever and doesn't finish generating the report. What I am wondering is if I installed 1.3 latest on another system and got the log file over there, will

[389-users] Error with setup-ds-admin.pl -u

2013-08-12 Thread Michael Gettes
Hi All, I'm finally trying to upgrade from 1.2.9.9 to ds-base = 1.2.11.15-20 on RHEL6 All is going well until I run the setup-ds-admin.pl -u The output from setup-ds-admin.pl -u is: Are you ready to set up your servers? [yes]: Registering the directory server instances with the configuration

Re: [389-users] 389 vs Sun DS ldapmodify performance

2012-04-18 Thread Michael Gettes
Hey russ, I've got the same problem for large groups using member... We are coming from an openldap world so not much use of uniquemember yet. On Apr 18, 2012 2:10 PM, Russell Beall be...@usc.edu wrote: Does anybody have a pointer to any performance comparisons between Sun DS and 389? I was

Re: [389-users] largish member changes causing problems

2012-03-27 Thread Michael Gettes
Ref int is not on. On Mar 27, 2012 10:11 AM, Mark Reynolds marey...@redhat.com wrote: Michael, Something else to check is the Referential Integrity Plugin. Is it enabled? If it is, something that I have seen that helps is to set the interval from 0 to 1 second. Or turn it off to rule it

Re: [389-users] largish member changes causing problems

2012-03-27 Thread Michael Gettes
and referint enabled. It took about 30 seconds to complete but it never hanged (389DS v1.2.9.10). 2012/3/27 Michael Gettes get...@gmail.com: Ref int is not on. On Mar 27, 2012 10:11 AM, Mark Reynolds marey...@redhat.com wrote: Michael, Something else to check is the Referential Integrity

[389-users] EL5 Install instructions broken?

2012-02-28 Thread Michael Gettes
Hi All, I am following the instructions on http://port389.org/wiki/Download for EL5 (towards the bottom) and it would appear the URLs are bad. There appears to be no port389.org/yum/blah. I need to use EL5 - going to EL6 not yet an option. Has anyone gotten this to work? Pointers appreciated.

Re: [389-users] SASL Mappings Question

2012-02-13 Thread Michael Gettes
. authentication not working. /mrg On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 10:12 AM, Rich Megginson rmegg...@redhat.comwrote: ** On 02/11/2012 11:37 AM, Michael Gettes wrote: I have a need to use a search filter in SASL mappings where it looks like something ((uid=\1)(|(objectclass=x)(objectclass=y

[389-users] SASL Mappings Question

2012-02-11 Thread Michael Gettes
I have a need to use a search filter in SASL mappings where it looks like something ((uid=\1)(|(objectclass=x)(objectclass=y))) the is being substituted like \1 as seen with tracing turned on. I have tried escaping it as \ and \\ smb://. I can't find any documentation on how the