Re: (ITS#7405) Improve refint documentation

[hyc@symas.com]

quanah@OpenLDAP.org wrote:
> Full_Name: Quanah Gibson-Mount
> Version: 2.4.32
> OS: NA
> URL: ftp://ftp.openldap.org/incoming/
> Submission from: (NULL) (74.196.25.250)
>
>
> As per debian bug#688857:
>
> Modifications made by refint are not replicated. They neither update the
> modification timestamp nor the CSN used for replication. This is serious
> data loss, because the replicas gets out of sync pretty quickly. There
> seems to be no way to recover from this discrepancy without doing a
> complete replication.
>
> While this seems to be known, it is not documented at all in the
> man-pages related to the refint and memberof overlays. Also it violates
> the principle of least surprise, because the changes are not limited to
> operational attributes.

slapo-refint(5) manpage updated in master. slapo-memberof(5) was updated in 
2.4.26 (ITS#6915) so at least that part of the bug report is invalid.

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