Re: (ITS#5680) pcache not returning cached entries

[ando@sys-net.it]

hyc@symas.com wrote:

>>>> The backend server is a Novell eDirectory and the proxy don't have
>>>> information about the complete schema.
>>> I suspect the remote server is returning an objectClass that is unknown
>>> to the proxy; for example, ndsLoginProperties.  So, not ours :)
>> I could reproduce the issue by caching an entry with an objectClass not
>> known to the proxy :).  So the "right" solution consists in fixing the
>> proxy's schema.  Of course, OpenLDAP could inform the proxy
>> administrator with some intelligible message or, even better, try to
>> repair itself (e.g. by checking the remote server's subschemaSubentry).
>>
> Probably not a good idea to do that automagically. Perhaps with a config 
> switch.

Right.  I'll fix it.

> Also, not a good idea to import miscellaneous foreign schema globally; 
> we should implement per-database schema instead.

I think per-database subschema has been on the todolist since ever or so :)

p.


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