Re: [389-users] Query blocking server

2009-10-27 Thread David Boreham
One core at 100% is to be expected if you're executing a long-running (unindexed) search over data that's mostly already in memory. What's not expected is that other concurrent operations (even on the same connection) should block. Generally that shouldn't happen. You might try turning up the

Re: [389-users] Monitoring recovering

2009-06-02 Thread David Boreham
Rich Megginson wrote: Emmanuel BILLOT wrote: Hi, When DS is crashed, sometimes logs sayes Recovering Database and i have to wait for minutes before it re run. Is it possible to watch what DS is doing (recovering progression ?) No, not really. I suppose you could strace the process. I think

Re: [Fedora-directory-users] Proposed new features for 1.3

2009-04-10 Thread David Boreham
Chandrasekar Kannan wrote: One of my pet peeves .. a plugin that can compress/decompress binary data. When we store large binary data (that can be easily compressed and stored ) in attributes , for example CRLs, I would like to see a ds plugin that compresses the data prior to storage. stores

Re: [Fedora-directory-users] Re: Total number of LDAP entries

2009-03-10 Thread David Boreham
Branimir wrote: so there is no way to find the number of total LDAP entries stored in FDC? Obviously that's a ridiculous statement. You could at the very least perform a search that returns all entries and count them ! The server however does not maintain a running count itself. So one way

Re: [Fedora-directory-users] Re: Total number of LDAP entries

2009-03-10 Thread David Boreham
Rich Megginson wrote: You might also be able to extract that information from the information in cn=monitor or one of the cn=monitor entries under the database entries - Unless something has changed recently, there's no entry count information maintained or readable via cn=monitor. The

Re: [Fedora-directory-users] Re: Total number of LDAP entries

2009-03-10 Thread David Boreham
Branimir wrote: well, I know that I can perform search and count them. I hoped that there is some shell command implemented in FDS that could provide this number. I administer commercial LDAP solution that provides such command. In my case this commercial solution charges per directory entry

Re: [Fedora-directory-users] Re: Total number of LDAP entries

2009-03-10 Thread David Boreham
Rich Megginson wrote: Assuming your entry cache contains every entry (that is, assuming you have enough RAM to cache every entry), you can query the entry cache count and that should be the number of entries in your directory server. This is the (apparently) undocumented attribute called

Re: [Fedora-directory-users] Re: Total number of LDAP entries

2009-03-10 Thread David Boreham
Nalin Dahyabhai wrote: Assuming you only care about entries that get stored on disk (which is what I'd prefer if I were a customer), you could find the id2entry database file run 'db_stat -d' against it, and use the number of unique keys and data items it returns as your count. This does

Re: [Fedora-directory-users] FDS and PagedResultsControl

2009-03-02 Thread David Boreham
Graham Leggett wrote: Normal users on the directory are subject to an administrative limit as to the size of the result sets returned, which in our case has defaulted to 50. I have to periodically query the directory and have all results returned, in order to perform an operation on all

Re: [Fedora-directory-users] Question about Red Hat Directory Source Code

2009-02-05 Thread David Boreham
Chun Tat David Chu wrote: I know that Fedora Directory and Red Hat Directory is essentially same except that Fedora Directory is usually newer than Red Hat Directory. My question is I know I can get the source code of Fedora Directory but what about Red Hat Directory? I thought Red Hat

Re: [Fedora-directory-users] Question about Red Hat Directory Source Code

2009-02-05 Thread David Boreham
Chun Tat David Chu wrote: Just to clarify, so Red Hat does store their source code of Red Hat Directory Server in a different repository than Fedora? No. There's only one repository. If you browse it you'll see RHDS release tags. And beside looking at it via CentOS source control system, if I

Re: [Fedora-directory-users] Question about Red Hat Directory Source Code

2009-02-05 Thread David Boreham
Chun Tat David Chu wrote: Can you please tell me the URL to the Red Hat/Fedora repository that you're talking about? I am not sure where is that. It's documented on the web site. pserver:anonym...@cvs.fedoraproject.org:/cvs/dirsec Dave, you're correct, we need to do some comparison between

Re: [Fedora-directory-users] FDS DB fatal error

2009-01-13 Thread David Boreham
Looks like something bad happened to the DB files while the server was running (some other process overwrote the files perhaps??). 23 minute recovery time would usually imply that either the database is very large, or that checkpoints weren't being done often enough (or some combination of

Re: [Fedora-directory-users] Re: Fedora-directory-users Digest, Vol 42, Issue 4

2008-11-04 Thread David Boreham
Memory is hazy about this, but I seem to remember that it was done as two steps because AD didn't allow userAccountControl to be set in the ADD. It had to be set by a separate MOD. Perhaps AD has changed since that time in this respect though. Rich Megginson wrote: Howard Chu wrote: Date:

Re: [Fedora-directory-users] Scheduled Resync with Windows Sync?

2008-07-07 Thread David Boreham
Glenn wrote: David - At least once a week on our 8,000-user systems, synchronization breaks. Usually it is because the Passsync service on the AD server stops running. Other times, Passync is running, but passwords do not sync. Sometimes passwords sync only one way. Sometimes password sync

Re: [Fedora-directory-users] Windows to linux migration [PassSync.msi for 64 bit windows2003 ]

2008-07-03 Thread David Boreham
lingu wrote: * Since i am using 64 bit windows edition but rhds8.0 is running on 32 bit edition.May be the passSync.msi comes along with 32bit edition works only with 32 bit windows or if any 64 bit version of PassSync.msi is available.Plz help me this is very urgent for me. * I don't know

Re: [Fedora-directory-users] Scheduled Resync with Windows Sync?

2008-07-02 Thread David Boreham
Glenn wrote: It is difficult to know when a full resynchronization is necessary for a given Windows Sync agreement. Why do you want to perform a full sync ? Typically that would only be done if a) the servers had been out of contact for a long time or b) when bringing up a new server or c)

Re: [Fedora-directory-users] SSL/TLS vs SASL in Directory Server solution

2008-05-13 Thread David Boreham
Kenneth Holter wrote: The DS supports both TLS and SASL. TLS can be used for both authentication and encryption, and should therefore cover our security needs. SASL is quite new to me, and as of now I don't see the benefit of using it. Which security or functionality features does SASL

Re: [Fedora-directory-users] SSL/TLS vs SASL in Directory Server solution

2008-05-13 Thread David Boreham
Kenneth Holter wrote: We're going for the TLS based solution. However, I'd like a better understanding of SASL, so let me post these questions: * What can SASL be used for besides Kerberos integration? SASL is a pluggable authentication framework, so it is a bit abstract when you read

Re: [Fedora-directory-users] FDS and Outlook

2008-03-25 Thread David Boreham
Michael Ströder wrote: Paul Fontenot wrote: Can anyone recommend a good howto that’ll allow Outlook to ‘browse’ the ldap entries? Maybe I misunderstood your question: AFAIK Outlook can only search for entries by (partial) name / e-mail address listing the results like address book entries.

Re: [Fedora-directory-users] tcp keepalive

2007-11-15 Thread David Boreham
I doubt you need to use SO_KEEPALIVE. A couple of observations: 1. If you have ESTABLISHED state connections on one end that are not in the same state on the peer, that would indicate something broken in the network or the stack, rather than in the DS. 2. The DS already has connection timeout

Re: [Fedora-directory-users] Error Logging Performance

2007-10-09 Thread David Boreham
Roman RATHLER wrote: If I activate error logging for ACL Control Summary or similar, the machine totaly goes into IO-Wait. It just writes maybe 100K/second but is totaly unusable any more... From normal 1% CPU Load (on a 2 Way Xeon) it moves to 200% CPU Utilization. Debugging ACLs therefore

Re: [Fedora-directory-users] ldapmodify and Fedora DS migration

2007-10-05 Thread David Boreham
Are you sure you are running a Netscape/Mozilla/FedoraDS ldapmodify and not an OpenLDAP ldapmodify ? Scott Lacy wrote: All, I am migrating an LDAP server off of Netscape I-Planet to Fedora Directory Server 1.0.4. I am having some issues with ldapmodify in that the command that worked in

Re: [Fedora-directory-users] nss_ldap cannot authenticate vs FDS

2007-10-03 Thread David Boreham
Looking at the debug logs you provided, the entry is correctly returned by the server in both cases. So persumably NSS_LDAP doesn't like the look of it. Is it expecting some specific object class that's missing perhaps ? Peter Santiago wrote: Hi, I was able to finally configure FDS to sync

Re: [Fedora-directory-users] need for Winsync clarification

2007-10-02 Thread David Boreham
Peter Santiago wrote: http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/dir-server/ag/7.1/sync.html#2836267 To create a synchronization agreement: 1. In the Directory Server Console, select the Configuration tab. 2. In the left-hand navigation tree, right-click on the suffix to sync, and select

Re: [Fedora-directory-users] libatomic.o missing; Solaris 8 Build

2007-09-28 Thread David Boreham
Jason wrote: Is there a way to get past this problem? Am I crazy for expecting this to compile on solaris even though solaris support is listed? Not crazy, but pretty darned close ;) A couple of things come to mind : the code may have rotted for Solaris 8 --- that's quite an old release. The

Re: [Fedora-directory-users] Dublicated entries appears, the initialization don't finish its work

2007-08-28 Thread David Boreham
My questions are: 1) Why have the duplicated entries with other kind of DNs spring up? These duplicated entries continue to appear again, but they are not desired. I need to know how to clear duplicates in order to such additions to be avoided. 2) Why the full replica initialization fall

Re: [Fedora-directory-users] FDS SSL performance tuning query

2007-08-08 Thread David Boreham
David Bogen wrote: Our experience has shown start_tls to be noticeably slower than straight ssl; slow enough that the difference is noticeable to people and not just to measurements. I would recommend going with straight SSL and not messing around with start_tls Interesting observation given

Re: [Fedora-directory-users] Does fedora-ds server need to be a DNS server too?

2007-08-07 Thread David Boreham
Xavier Toth wrote: Maybe this is old, maybe I've misunderstood? http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=98414 Well, that isn't an 'official' FDS document, but reading it I suspect the author wanted to tell you how to install a DNS server, assuming perhaps that you wouldn't already

Re: [Fedora-directory-users] fedora directory server and sun directory server

2007-08-07 Thread David Boreham
Aaron Bliss wrote: We are currently running sun directory server, however I don't particularly care for it too muchI'm thinking about possibly migrating to fds (I've used fds extensively at my previous job)...Does anyone know if it's possible to setup replication between a sun directory

Re: [Fedora-directory-users] FDS SSL performance tuning query

2007-08-07 Thread David Boreham
I can reproducably, impact on FDS performance by running: $ getent passwd | cut -d: -f 1 | while read i; do id $i; done Since you can reproduce the syndrome at will, and in a steady state, just run that command above and then go run 'pstack fds_pid' on the server machine. That'll dump

Re: [Fedora-directory-users] Zimbra Schema for FDS

2007-08-06 Thread David Boreham
Satish Chetty wrote: Wilmer, Does this mean, I can move all OpenLDAP data (including Zimbra System config data) from OpenLDAP to FDS? Or just user data? Zimbra recommends that I only move user data and not Zimbra system data. Looking at the ldif file, it looks like he's replacing OpenLDAP

Re: [Fedora-directory-users] Instructions to add a new multi-master?

2007-08-02 Thread David Boreham
e a step I am missing. How does one do that? Thanks Geoff David Boreham wrote: mallapadi niranjan wrote: would it be possible to just install DS and setup the same hostaname and same replica ID, and start the replication. Why should we delete the replication aggreement in other master se

Re: [Fedora-directory-users] Problem with Massive Replication Agreements

2007-07-22 Thread David Boreham
The message tells you that the server failed to create a thread because the OS wouldn't let it. Typically this happens either because there's some OS limit that needs to be increased, or because the thread stack stride is very large and you're running a 32-bit server (the fix for that is to

Re: [Fedora-directory-users] Performance

2007-07-16 Thread David Boreham
Chun Tat David Chu wrote: Can anyone recommend any tools that are available for testing LDAP? SLAMD is popular, but I still like to use the simple command line tools like rsearch and its siblings : http://docs.sun.com/source/816-6400-10/rsearch.html

Re: [Fedora-directory-users] Performance

2007-07-16 Thread David Boreham
Norman Gaywood wrote: Yes it was a read-only test. But then that's the main application of LDAP servers. Are there applications that require high LDAP write performance? It's pretty easy to achieve performance in excess of most applications' requirements for reads, but write performance it

Re: [Fedora-directory-users] Performance

2007-07-13 Thread David Boreham
Vampire D wrote: We will not be using LDAP in the traditional sense. Instead of authentication, we will be using it to perform lookups upon incoming mail. We plan on having tens of thousands of email addresses stored in LDAP, every message that comes in is verified via LDAP that it is

Re: [Fedora-directory-users] Performance

2007-07-13 Thread David Boreham
Vampire D wrote: Would you recommend more than 2GB for 100k/hr? Memory usage is unrelated to search workload. You need more memory to achieve good performance with a larger set of active data. I'd recommend you do some load testing. There are plenty of good tools available that make testing

Re: [Fedora-directory-users] Winsync - repeating password synchronization

2007-04-28 Thread David Boreham
Not sure what the problem is but passync is designed to avoid this loop : it attempts to bind to fds with the new password before propagating it back. If the bind succeeds it concludes there is a loop and refrains from sending the change to FDS. At least that's what should happen. You might look

Re: [Fedora-directory-users] Replication Possibilities

2007-03-19 Thread David Boreham
Paxton, Darren wrote: Unfortunately, our current strategy is to have Active Directory as the single Directory for user management so as to make our Service Desk more efficient. We also have a policy of removing all single points of failure from within our enterprise, therefore I was looking

Re: [Fedora-directory-users] Replication Possibilities

2007-03-19 Thread David Boreham
Eddie C wrote: I can not give an authoritative answer, but if your active directory is 2003 server your active directory itself is multimaster ( no more PDC and SDC ). It seems theorically possible to install active directory sync on both nodes but leave it running only on one domain

Re: [Fedora-directory-users] lookthrough vs. sizelimit

2007-03-14 Thread David Boreham
The notion behind lookthrough limit is that the administrator can dermine an upper bound for the amount of WORK that the server will perform for a given client's search. This is basically a simple form of denial of service control. So clients that hit the limit are not expected to receive useful

Re: [Fedora-directory-users] Multi-Master Replication Problems

2007-03-06 Thread David Boreham
Wendt, Trevor wrote: I'm having some significant issues getting my multi-master servers synchronized after a network outage this past weekend. First I was getting: error-- NSMMReplicationPlugin - agmt=cn=srv1-to-srv2 (srv2:389): Replica has a different generation ID than the local data.

Re: [Fedora-directory-users] Error string : 'The server ID must be a valid filename and DN component'

2007-02-21 Thread David Boreham
Richard Megginson wrote: What is the output of hostname and hostname -f? 'servera' and 'servera' -- Fedora-directory-users mailing list Fedora-directory-users@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-directory-users

Re: [Fedora-directory-users] Error string : 'The server ID must be a valid filename and DN component'

2007-02-21 Thread David Boreham
Richard Megginson wrote: It's failing in the function isValidServerID in ux-dialog.cc The argument to this is the server id, which is usually everything to the left of . in the FQDN. If you can manually specify either a FQDN in the hostname dialog, or a server ID in the server id dialog, you

Re: [Fedora-directory-users] How to make application connect to multi-master set-up?

2007-02-19 Thread David Boreham
Ankur Agarwal wrote: We have a weblogic app server based application which talks to RedHat LDAP through weblogic's security provider APIs. On Production env we have set-up master-master LDAP servers i.e. there are two master LDAP servers. How should i make my application connect to these 2

Re: [Fedora-directory-users] sasl encryption not supported over ssl error

2007-02-12 Thread David Boreham
Yu Joe wrote: Dear all I tried to make my FDS work with sasl(digest-md5)+SSL. I can get correct result by ldapsearch -Y digest-md5 -U sasl1 ... or ldapsearch -x -D 'cn=Directory Manager' -W -H ldaps://rhds.example.com But I got the error message such as *sasl encryption not supported

Re: [Fedora-directory-users] CPU utilization

2007-01-26 Thread David Boreham
Renato Ribeiro da Silva wrote: I'm having questions about CPU utilization of Directory Server. The process ns-slapd take 99.9% of CPU almost all the time. Is there any way to know why this is happening? Any performance counter ( DS Console ) can show me the answer ? Is is possible to know

Re: [Fedora-directory-users] big searches dont return anything

2007-01-11 Thread David Boreham
George Holbert wrote: Is it possible for DB corruption to be replicated? In other words, if a master replica's DB goes corrupt, how likely is that to corrupt the DB on the consumers (if at all)? In general this can't happen. Replication is done at the directory entry semantic level, so each

Re: [Fedora-directory-users] big searches dont return anything

2007-01-10 Thread David Boreham
Stéphane Konstantaropoulos wrote: It'd be nice if it noticed by itself that the db is corrupted. Unfortunately that's something of an AI problem :( There is some code in the server that can compare the results of an indexed vs an unindexed execution of the same query (used in the past to

Re: [Fedora-directory-users] FDS, SNMP Cacti...

2007-01-10 Thread David Boreham
Howard Chu wrote: I really wish Net::LDAP would just go away and die. People should be using Mozilla::LDAP (or Net::LDAPapi), particularly when they're doing timing measurements. I guess as a monitoring device to say is it alive it's not too crucial, but you have to realize that when it

Re: [Fedora-directory-users] FDS, SNMP Cacti...

2007-01-10 Thread David Boreham
Richard Megginson wrote: But even Net::LDAP is not entirely perl - the SSL bits call out to openssl via Net::SSLeay. There may be other C bits called as well. Calling out to C isn't bad per se, but it really only works when the module has OS distribution support. End users typically can't

Re: [Fedora-directory-users] FDS behind NATed firewall

2007-01-10 Thread David Boreham
One thing to watch when using software tunnels is that there was (is still?) a bug in the ldap protocol library underneath the server where if packets are fragmented in strange and unnatural ways, the server just won't work properly (it fails to decode the LDAP PDU header properly). This

Re: [Fedora-directory-users] Windows Sync Errors

2007-01-08 Thread David Boreham
Glenn wrote: All you need is to have entries that are 'syncable'. On the FDS side this means special objectclass and attribute values. On the AD side it only means having the entries in the container configured in the sync agreement. If I have entries in DS that do not exist in AD, and

Re: [Fedora-directory-users] Windows Sync Errors

2007-01-05 Thread David Boreham
Patrick Morris wrote: On Fri, 05 Jan 2007, Glenn wrote: So if I have some object classes and attributes required for AD that are not allowed in DS, and vice-versa, how can I make Windows Sync work? I'm sure I'm missing something here. I'm including sample ldif entries from each import

Re: [Fedora-directory-users] Directory sync with Windows 2003 Server x64

2007-01-05 Thread David Boreham
Richard Hesse wrote: I'm guessing the problem is along those lines. The installer MSI puts the files in the correct locations for 32-bit binaries [syswow64 and program files (x86)]. Everything appears kosher along those lines, but it's just not working. My fear is that Windows will only let a

Re: [Fedora-directory-users] FDS, SNMP Cacti...

2007-01-04 Thread David Boreham
HAWKER, Dan wrote: Have had a quick surf and there are couple of OpenLDAP and SunOne DS templates out there I can use as a starting point, but nothing specifically for FDS. The SunOne template should work, since the SNMP MIB is identical. -- Fedora-directory-users mailing list

Re: [Fedora-directory-users] Simple Paged Results Control Support in Future?

2006-12-22 Thread David Boreham
Phil Lembo wrote: Any chance we'll get to see support for Simple Paged Results Control in a future version of Fedora Directory? It wouldn't be hard to implement because the existing VLV code could be mostly re-used. Are you looking to support an application that already uses simple paged

Re: [Fedora-directory-users] Persistent MMR problems

2006-12-22 Thread David Boreham
Ulf Weltman wrote: Does it definitely replicate a few changes correctly before the problem starts? It reminds me of a problem that used to occur with an earlier 6.21 release, but in that case the first change would not be replicated (changelog empty with no anchor at the head of the list),

Re: [Fedora-directory-users] Migration from i-planet 52

2006-12-18 Thread David Boreham
Eddie C wrote: I ran DB ERROR: db_verify: Page 30: out-of-order key at entry 498 DB ERROR: db_verify: DB-verify: db/o_com/channelcontentowner.db4: DB_VERIFY_BAD: Database verification failed I'm assuming that you are running the correct version of db_verify (it should perform a version

Re: [Fedora-directory-users] Windows Sync without Domain Admin?

2006-12-01 Thread David Boreham
Nicholas Byrne wrote: Is it possible to do a syncronisation of a windows peer without the windows user who i use to bind being a domain admin? No. I'm not 100% sure but I believe you need to be a domain admin to use the dirsync control, which FDS uses to pull entries from AD. If that isn't

Re: [Fedora-directory-users] Windows Sync Error

2006-11-29 Thread David Boreham
Glenn wrote: The Windows Sync documentation indicates that Windows Sync will populate an Active Directory, but I find this difficult to believe given the limitations noted above. Erum, it will provided you don't feed it bad data. I admit that I haven't tried working with the schema. I'm

Re: [Fedora-directory-users] Authentication through Active Directory

2006-11-28 Thread David Boreham
Joerg Schoppet wrote: I'm in an account of a bigger company, which uses Microsoft Active Directory for User Management and Authentication. Now we need to save some additional information for a subset of all employees, but the AD-Administrators do not want to include the required attributes in

Re: [Fedora-directory-users] Windows Sync Error

2006-11-28 Thread David Boreham
Glenn wrote: I wasn't thinking when I said the directory server data was imported from NT. It actually came from a Netscape Directory server. Just as a test, I exported a few users to an ldif file and tried to use the ldifde on the W2003 domain controller to import them. It seems to find a

Re: [Fedora-directory-users] Authentication through Active Directory

2006-11-28 Thread David Boreham
Ulf Weltman wrote: The Pass Through Authentication plugin should also work with ADS Right. Windows Sync would need to be deployed _without_ passsync otherwise I'm not quite sure what would happen when it does its binds to check the password for loops. FDS + Winsync + PTA - passsync might

Re: [Fedora-directory-users] Re: Subtree/user pw policy on 1.0.2? (Richard Megginson)

2006-11-17 Thread David Boreham
Philip Kime wrote: I know some people have reported success - perhaps they will chime in. I tried an upgrade to 1.0.4 but it didn't change anything - still can't have subtree/user policies enforced when I use ldappasswd. Now, this shouldn't be an ACI issue on the policy objects, correct?

Re: [Fedora-directory-users] Single Sign On

2006-11-14 Thread David Boreham
Gordon May wrote: I was wondering if anyone can help me with setting up a single sign on system. I want my users to be able to sign on once and have access to all areas of our site. Ie Forum, wiki, Trac, SVN, etc. From what I've read it looks like Kerberos will be needed for this. Hmm. What

Re: [Fedora-directory-users] PAM passthru questions and SecureID

2006-11-09 Thread David Boreham
I have also been researching two-factor token support in LDAP recently. What I found depressed me : other than RSA with Novell, there is no, repeat NO support for using centralized LDAP authentication with these things. The vendors will often mention LDAP, but when they do it's as a management

Re: [Fedora-directory-users] PAM passthru questions and SecureID

2006-11-09 Thread David Boreham
Chris Maresca wrote: BTW, I have gotten CryptoCard to work with Fedora, and I'm just now working on PAM passthru. Hopefully I'll be able to write a howto in the next few weeks. That'd be great. However in my experience it's SecurID that everyone wants support for :( --

Re: [Fedora-directory-users] Need a replica on sles10

2006-11-03 Thread David Boreham
Any thoughts on what logs from FDS would be slurp-able, or if FDS supports writing that kind of replication log? Originally the two came from the same code. Netscape Directory Server 1.x used a replication mechanism that was derived from slurpd (but the slurp functionality was included in

Re: [Fedora-directory-users] Alternatives to Windows sync?

2006-11-02 Thread David Boreham
Philip Kime wrote: I've been trying to get Windows sync installed but it's going to be impossibel as it means enabling password complexity policies in a large domain and that isn't going to happen. Does anyone know of any alternatives to this? I know this is desperate since you have

Re: [Fedora-directory-users] Trouble getting windows to talk to fds

2006-10-31 Thread David Boreham
Pete Rowley wrote: Bliss, Aaron wrote: I'm a little confused here; what is the purpose of the passsync service (I've successfully created a replication agreement over ssl via fds and ad). Thanks again. To synchronize passwords as they change. Specifically, in the AD-FDS direction.

Re: [Fedora-directory-users] password sync with 2 AD domains

2006-10-29 Thread David Boreham
Mikael Kermorgant wrote: I've read about password sync between Active Directory and Fedora Directory Server. In my environment, there is one global LDAP server built upon FDS, and two Active directory domains. Is there any hope to get password sync between FDS and both Active Directory domains

Re: [Fedora-directory-users] password sync with 2 AD domains

2006-10-29 Thread David Boreham
Is there any hope that a virtual view would be enough ? I have indeed a single ou for all the users in FDS. Not without code changes, I don't think so. The code uses certain criteria to determine if a given entry 'belongs' in the target AD. It can support multiple AD domains (create multiple

Re: [Fedora-directory-users] fdsgraph: an rrdtool-based graphing utility for FDS

2006-10-20 Thread David Boreham
Chris St. Pierre wrote: If any of you are familiar with mailgraph for Postfix-based mail servers, I've created something similar for Fedora DS. fdsgraph tails For anyone that uses an SNMP based grapher like cricket or cacti, note that most of this information is also available via SNMP

Re: [Fedora-directory-users] DB object limit question

2006-10-07 Thread David Boreham
John Call wrote: Is there a known limit of objects / db? A few billion. I've recently encountered strange behaviour in my FDS. The strange behaviour exhibits itself by not allowing searchs within ou containers. Although if I bind as Directory Manager I can search, but it takes a

Re: [Fedora-directory-users] Re: Extending inetOrgPerson's schema to support custom attributes

2006-09-25 Thread David Boreham
Any ideas ? Yes. RTFM : http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/dir-server/ag/7.1/scmacfg.html#1079595 Use the GUI to extend schema and see what it puts in the ldif files. Then you can copy that content to extend schema in a server sans GUI. -- Fedora-directory-users mailing list

Re: [Fedora-directory-users] cryptocard and FDS

2006-09-21 Thread David Boreham
* Cryptocard has its own authentication server, but provides a PAM module for Linux. Therefore it should be possible to use the PAM passthru FDS module mentioned here a while back: http://cvs.fedora.redhat.com/viewcvs/ldapserver/ldap/servers/plugins/pam_passthru/?root=dirsec * Cryptocard

Re: [Fedora-directory-users] SASL authentication

2006-09-08 Thread David Boreham
I skimmed RFC 4513 (sans coffee) and didn't find the section you're referring to. I did see that RFC 4422 (last paragraph of section 3.6) seems to suggest that OS X's and OpenLDAP's behavior is legitimate and useful. I'm not sure I read that there. I see this : It is also important that the

Re: [Fedora-directory-users] SASL authentication

2006-09-07 Thread David Boreham
One thing to observe here is that _generally_ one does not want to reveal more information to a potential attacker than is necessary. In this case it may be useful for a bad guy to know that there is no plaintext password vs. only knowing that authentication failed. Put another way : attempts to

Re: [Fedora-directory-users] Disable TLS/SSL security check for password changing

2006-07-16 Thread David Boreham
Sævaldur Arnar Gunnarsson wrote: Bottom line, how do I disable the security check that demands TLS/SSL connection in order to change passwords ? You can't, without editing the source code that is. RFC3062 says: 4. Security Considerations This operation is used to modify user

Re: [Fedora-directory-users] RHAS 4.0 Pseries

2006-06-20 Thread David Boreham
nattapon viroonsri wrote: Compile Problem with RHAS 4.0 Pseries RHAS 4.0 for Pseries FDS is one of those projects that has to have been 'ported' to each target platform. AFAIK no such port to pSeries has been done. This would explain why ICU is not building for you. Now, it probably

Re: [Fedora-directory-users] PassSync only working one way

2006-06-14 Thread David Boreham
Can the OP post a verbose log segment relating to this problem please ? There _should_ be something in the log to indicate where the problem lies. -- Fedora-directory-users mailing list Fedora-directory-users@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-directory-users

Re: [Fedora-directory-users] PassSync only working one way

2006-06-14 Thread David Boreham
Jeff Gamsby wrote: Here is a piece of the log: This tells me that FDS either a) succeeded in modifying the user's password or b) it never tried to generate the modify. It isn't clear from the log what the two modify operations in the changelog are (why are there two??). Can you say more

Re: [Fedora-directory-users] data design for inactive users?

2006-06-13 Thread David Boreham
Scott wrote: In our ldap we do not delete users, we deactivate them with nsaccountlock. All user entries are in the same branch of the tree. In this data structure, all uid's are unique and are not used again. Ok well now our ldap is getting large and I would like active users separate from

Re: [Fedora-directory-users] ns-slapd process growing

2006-06-11 Thread David Boreham
Frits Hoogland wrote: I am running the fedora directory server version 1.0.2 on debian gnu linux version 3.1 (debian sarge) The ldap server itself (ns-slapd) worked alright, but upon increased usage, the ns-slapd process is ever increasing memory usage. ps shows size (SZ col) of 220669, top

Re: [Fedora-directory-users] apache ldap over SSL.

2006-06-09 Thread David Boreham
Mickael Besse wrote: In the access log fo FDS there is: SSL connection from ... to [09/Jun/2006:11:57:45 +0200] conn=163 op=-1 fd=77 closed - Encountered end of file. thus , the connection arrives to FDS but it is directly closed. I don't know what means Encountered end of file ??

Re: [Fedora-directory-users] PassSync setup still not working

2006-06-07 Thread David Boreham
One thing to note, in case it isn't already clear : The SSL connection setup between FDS and AD is entirely orthogonal to the SSL connection from PassSync running on Win2k and FDS. From your e-mail it isn't clear to me that you're aware of this. e.g. the certutil command you're running on

Re: [Fedora-directory-users] PassSync setup still not working

2006-06-07 Thread David Boreham
Jeff Gamsby wrote: Thanks. Yes, I understand that. From what I understand, the FDS (client, certutil db) is trying to talk to the AD (server, Microsoft CA) and the PassSync cert db just has the trusted FDS server certs (for synchronization). Do I need to import the FDS server certs into AD,

Re: RE : Re: RE : Re: [Fedora-directory-users] fedora directory server on Windows

2006-06-06 Thread David Boreham
paul barnes wrote: Does anybody have any other ideas or can give me indications Robert's suggestion of ApacheDS is a good one. It's used for the NT4 sync feature of FSD, principally because otherwise a Windows version of FDS would have been required, and because modifying its

Re: RE : Re: [Fedora-directory-users] fedora directory server on Windows

2006-06-02 Thread David Boreham
Paul, while the paragraph here http://directory.fedora.redhat.com/wiki/Building#Windows implies that FDS builds on Windows. In fact it doesn't. It _could_ be made to build, install and run on Windows, since there was a Windows version of its ancestor products. But I'd be astonished if someone

Re: [Fedora-directory-users] Replication problems

2006-05-23 Thread David Boreham
Title: Replication problems Paul Clayton wrote: I have one server running FD core 5 and the other FD core 4 Each server has the recommended product installed, and at this point there is no issue. What I am having is a replication problem. Initially I set server A as

Re: [Fedora-directory-users] Replication problems

2006-05-23 Thread David Boreham
Title: Replication problems Paul Clayton wrote: I am aware of that and if you had read the email I sent, it was specified as such. Yes, but it seemed that you attempted to 'upgrade' the consumer to a master after installation and configuration. It may be that this doesn't

Re: [Fedora-directory-users] UserPassword value in backend?

2006-05-05 Thread David Boreham
The user is added to the database succefully.I can able to see the encrypted password while retrieving it (but i am adding it using the clear text format). I want to know how the password is actually stored in the database? The hashed value is stored (much the same as /etc/passwd). You

Re: [Fedora-directory-users] cleartext password

2006-05-05 Thread David Boreham
Mikael Kermorgant wrote: Is there be a way to store a clear version of the passwords in an external storage (sql db, text file...) while turning on encryption on the directory server ? Yes there is. It might be useful to know more about what you are trying to achieve, because there are a few

Re: [Fedora-directory-users] Fedora directory Server 7.1 with BDB/MySQL Backend

2006-05-01 Thread David Boreham
Hariharan R wrote: Fedora DS 7.1 by default supports LDBM database as a backend data store. I want to change the backend database to BDB or MySQL. How i can make the Fedora DS 7.1 to interface with BDB or MySQL database? Well let's see... 1. The LDBM/BDB thing is an OpenLDAP-ism.

Re: [Fedora-directory-users] Fedora-directory-users] How interhangeable are ldap, server?

2006-04-17 Thread David Boreham
Philip Lembo wrote: Very important point made about knowing the extended features of each directory product. For example, Active Directory sets a hard limit on the number of entries returned by a search. The way around this is to use the Paged Results control extension (good feature). Problem

Re: [Fedora-directory-users] mass delete : size limit problem

2006-04-12 Thread David Boreham
Mikael Kermorgant wrote: Hello, I'd like to run a script that deletes everything from ou=People (~ 5000 users). The problem is that I first run a search and the result size is limited by the server. Increasing thiis limit would surely work but I don't find it very elegant. Do you see

Re: [Fedora-directory-users] Disabling vlv support

2006-02-27 Thread David Boreham
Reinhard Nappert wrote: Can anybody point me to a way how the vlv feature can be disabled? You'll need to modify the source code. The change is quite simple : you'd need to find the place where a VLV operation is detected and change the code to bypass the VLV code path. Also, I

Re: [Fedora-directory-users] Disabling vlv support

2006-02-27 Thread David Boreham
Reinhard Nappert wrote: Unfortunately there is a bug (iPlanet/SUN Directory Server used to have the same bug, but it was fixed recently). In case you perform vlv searches and modifications occur at the same time the server hangs. Have a look at the release notes

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