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Re: slapd-relay and slapo-rwm questions



--On Wednesday, October 11, 2006 4:23 PM -0700 Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com> wrote:

Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote: 
So, I've been playing with slapo-relay and slapd-rwm to try and make it
so that I can meet the expectations of different email clients that
query my directory.  This has led to a few questions:

(1) If your root is "dc=example,dc=com", and the entries you are
interested in rewriting are in "cn=people,dc=example,dc=com" and the
suffix you want to use virtually is "cn=outlook,dc=example,dc=com", how
do you configure this?  My attempts at doing this gave me the following
error:

<suffix> namingContext "cn=outlook,dc=example,dc=com" already served by
a preceding hdb database serving namingContext "dc=example,dc=com"


The same rules for slapd.conf ordering still apply - the most specific
DN's must appear before the less specific DN. So you must define

database relay
suffix cn=outlook,dc=example,dc=com
...

database hdb
suffix dc=example,dc=com
...



If you put it before the database hdb definition, then it cannot find the dc=stanford,dc=edu database, and slapd fails to start.

/usr/local/etc/openldap/slapd.conf: line 72: cannot find database of relay dn "cn=people,dc=stanford,dc=edu" in "relay <dn> [massage]" line


so that's a non-starter.


(2) How do you get it to map the entry DN results to the new base?  With
"cn=people,dc=stanford,dc=edu" being mapped to
"cn=outlook,dc=example,dc=com", the entries DNs returned all show
"cn=people,dc=stanford,dc=edu" instead of "cn=outlook,dc=example,dc=com":


ldapsearch -LLL -x -h ldap-dev1 -b "cn=outlook,dc=example,dc=com"
"cn=quanah*"
dn: suRegID=85e49978f61311d2ae662436000baa77,cn=people,dc=stanford,dc=edu

You still need to configure the suffixmassage. 


My understand is that is the point of this bit of configuration?

database                relay
suffix                  cn=outlook,dc=stanford,dc=edu
relay                   cn=people,dc=stanford,dc=edu massage


but that doesn't do it.


(3) How do you map attributes to attribute names that don't exist in
your schema?  Since this is really about what gets displayed back to the
client, I don't see why there is a requirement that the mapped-to
attribute name must exist in your schema.


Everything that the local slapd returns directly to a client must exist
in the local slapd's schema. You can only get away with using undefined
schema elements when forwarding queries to a remote server, and even then
you shouldn't - you should import the remote schema into the local slapd.

Remember, we don't support "schemachecking off" any more - we expect
everything that we touch to have valid schema definitions.


I don't see why it is necessary for whatever the attribute gets mapped *to* to exist in the local schema. I don't see why I should be forced to load mozilla's schema, for example, to rewrite attributes I have in my server to what mozilla wants, or why I should create some bogus "display-name" attribute just so I can rewrite "displayName" to "display-name" for outlook. To me, the whole idea here, is I want to present to the client attributes that are syntax correct in the underlying DB, since they are forced to be there, as whatever I want the end client to see them as. As is, this whole overlay becomes worthless to me without that ability.

--Quanah

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Quanah Gibson-Mount
Principal Software Developer
ITS/Shared Application Services
Stanford University
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