RE: [Fedora-directory-users] Question on password changes

Bliss, Aaron
Tue, 24 Jan 2006 15:52:25 -0000

Thanks for getting back to me so quickly; I''ve seen the error messages
that you referenced below; I can then assume then my only alternative is
to setup a multimaster environment?  Thanks.

Aaron

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Subject: Re: [Fedora-directory-users] Question on password changes

Bliss, Aaron wrote:

>I have a quick question on password changes; my current setup is the
>following: I have 2 directory servers, single master environment
>(supplier and consumer); I understand that all changes to the directory

>have to be made by the supplier and are then replicated to the
>consumer; when a client server binds to the consumer and a user
>attempts to change their password, they receive an unknown error
>response from the server, and changes are not made; simply configuring
>the client''s ldap.conf file to bind first with the supplier
resolved
>this issue, however I was wondering if it''s possible to configure
the
>consumer in such a way that he will refer the update to take place on
>the supplier instead of rejecting the change to the database?
>
Yes, that''s what should be happening.  When you send the modify
password
request to the consumer, it should send back a referral to the supplier.
You can see this in the access log - a MOD request followed by a
response with err=10 (referral).  If however the client is using the
password modify extended operation, I don''t think that is referred to
the supplier.  In this case, you will see EXT as the operation type in
the access log for the request.

>I would have thought that the
>consumer would simply refer changes automatically to the supplier, but
>that doesn''t seem to be the case.  Any thoughts?
>
Check the access logs, as above.

>I do know that I can
>configure both servers to be masters, but I was hoping to avoid this
>(I''ve read thru some of the directory server documentation citing
>errors and so forth in a multi-master environment) Thanks.
>
>
http://directory.fedora.redhat.com/wiki/Howto:ChainOnUpdate

However, I don''t think we chain the password change extended operation.

>Aaron
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