I suggest you read slapd.conf(5) with particular attention to its discussion of updatedn and rootdn. The Admin Guide also comments on this.
Kurt At 08:13 AM 3/15/2006, mallapadi niranjan wrote: >Hi all > >I have openldap 2.3.19 setup one master ldap server, >and would like to setup an slave ldap server . >in master slapd.conf i have given the following replica directive >########################################### >replogfile >/usr/local/ldap2.3/var/openldap/openldap-slurp/openldap-master-replog >replica host-192.168.129.18:389 > suffix ="dc=mydomain,dc=com" > binddn="cn=manager,dc=msdpl,dc=com" > credentials=secret > bind method = simple >##################################################### > >at slave ldap server slapd.conf > >database bdb >suffix "dc=msdpl,dc=com" >rootdn "cn=manager,dc=msdpl,dc=com" >rootpw secret >idletimeout 30 >timelimit 50 >updatedn "cn=manager,dc=msdpl,dc=com" >updateref ldap://192.168.129.20 > >####################################################### >in the above master and slave slapd.conf , i have used same rootdn, >is it correct to use ? > >please guide me > >Regards >Niranjan > > > > >On 3/15/06, mallapadi niranjan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Hi howard >> >> thanks for the replay, please clear my one more query regarding >> >> 3) can slave rootdn, and master rootdn be same, ie if the master rootdn is >> "cn=root,dc=mydomain,dc=com", >> ie, at master slapd.conf at replica directive if we give the >> "binddn=cn=root,dc=msdpl,dc=com". >> >> Regards >> Niranjan >> >> >> >> On 3/15/06, Howard Chu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > >> > mallapadi niranjan wrote: >> > > Hi matthew >> > > >> > > we are using slurpd, >> > > my query is >> > > >> > > 1) will the slave discard the updates when the master ldap server is >> > down. >> > > >> > >> > A slave never processes user updates. It returns a referral to the >> > client; it is up to the client to do the right thing with the referral. >> > >> > >> > -- >> > -- Howard Chu >> > Chief Architect, Symas Corp. http://www.symas.com >> > Director, Highland Sun http://highlandsun.com/hyc >> > OpenLDAP Core Team http://www.openldap.org/project/ >> > >> > >>
