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Re: managing OpenLDAP / back-config



Hallvard B Furuseth wrote:
Michael Ströder writes:

Hallvard B Furuseth wrote:
Assertion controls in the generated LDIF, to check that the config entry
being updated indeed matches the entry we read from cn=config and
edited.
BTW: web2ldap implements delta-modification. The entry is re-read right
before the delta of the current entry and the user's input is generated.
This works quite well since years with several LDAP servers. If there
was a modification in between the delta modification still applies
correctly.

Not sure if I should be writing this since I've hardly looked at web2ldap yet, but anyway... I don't quite get that. I'd think a correct delta would be generated by comparing with the entries as they looked when the user started editing. Minus any changes that have happened already.

web2ldap trys to get close to a viable solution. The really correct solution would involve entry locking like available in RDBMS, maybe via an LDAP extended operation.


Ciao, Michael.