Re: [Fedora-directory-users] questions about 2 node multi-master setup

Rich Megginson
Tue, 02 Sep 2008 19:04:53 -0000

Luke Schierer wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 02, 2008 at 11:19:55AM -0600, Rich Megginson wrote:
>
>> Luke Schierer wrote:
>>
>>> On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 03:06:04PM -0400, Luke Schierer wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>> I just set up Fedora Directory Server on two nodes, and have
set up
>>>> multi-master replication between them following the directions
at
>>>>
http://directory.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Howto:WalkthroughMultimasterSSL
>>>>
>>>> It seems to mostly work, but I have a few questions.
>>>>
>>>> 1)After initializing nodeB and restarting nodesA and B, I can
no
>>>> longer connect to nodeB with the Console application.  If I
type in
>>>> its hostname, it connects, but I can only open up the slapd
directory
>>>> if nodeA is up.  I can continue to log into nodes
authenticating
>>>> against the pair, and I can use the command line utities to
connect to
>>>> nodeB.  Any ideas what I might be doing wrong?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 2)if I change a password (using the passwd command on a client)
while
>>>> nodeA is down, or add a user with ldapmodify while nodeA is
down, the
>>>> change does not seem to replicate back to nodeA after it comes
back
>>>> up.  Do I have to force an initialization in such cases?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Luke
>>>>
>>>>
>>> A couple of additional details.  This is on a 32-bit Redhat
Enterprise
>>> 5 server.  The first issue only happens if I set it to replicate
>>> ou=NetscapeRoot, which appears to be necessary for the global
password
>>> policy to replicate.
>>>
>> I don''t think that is true.  What leads you to believe that?
>>
>
> Because I tried once without having the ou=NetscapeRoot set to
> replicate, and the password policy did not show as set on the other
> console.  Still, perhaps I did something wrong.
>
That''s really weird - the global password policy is stored in
cn=config,
not in o=NetscapeRoot, so I''m not sure why replication would have
anything to do with this.
>
>>> Is there a better way to achieve this?
>>>
>>>
>> Have you seen this - http://tinyurl.com/6apcfq
>>
>
> I had not, my fault for now reading the full manual it appears, as it
> has extra steps for setting up the second instance.  I will try with
> these directions.
>
> Thanks for the pointer!!
>
> Luke
>
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