RE: partial replication of entries/attributes

["Howard Chu" <hyc@highlandsun.com>]

Seems like it should not be much trouble. Especially given how flexible
ad_inlist is with attributes/objectclasses.

  -- Howard Chu
  Chief Architect, Symas Corp.       Director, Highland Sun
  http://www.symas.com               http://highlandsun.com/hyc  
  Symas: Premier OpenSource Development and Support

> -----Original Message-----
> From: rsw@sendmail.com [mailto:rsw@sendmail.com]
> Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2002 1:51 PM
> To: Pierangelo Masarati
> Cc: hyc@highlandsun.com; openldap-devel@OpenLDAP.org
> Subject: Re: partial replication of entries/attributes
> 
> 
> On Thu, 10 Jan 2002, Pierangelo Masarati wrote:
> 
> : > In LDAP/X.500, modifications are atomic, all-or-nothing. If any 
> part of an
> : > update fails the entire update must fail. The place to limit 
> things is on the
> : > master, when it generates the replog.
> :
> : I definitely meant using some sort of ACLs when generating the replog
> : data, a sort of extension/generalization of the current code that
> : partially replicates a subtree.  One could think of generating only
> : partial changes based on some rule; ACLs may be one flexible way to
> : write those rules.
> 
> If you mean like the "filter replicas" some vendors offer, I think
> this would be just dandy.
> 
> Randall
>