Re: slurpd access control problems

[Quanah Gibson-Mount <quanah@stanford.edu>]

--On Friday, January 19, 2007 11:25 PM +0100 Andrea Venturoli 
<ml@netfence.it> wrote:

> Hello.
> I guess this must be a FAQ, but I tried searching for a whole day and
> didn't came up with any answer.
>
> I've got two FreeBSD servers running openldap 2.3.32 in a master/slave
> configuration. I'm using slurpd to keep them in sync: I tried this with
> the rootdn as the slurp binddn and from a network perspective it works.
> Now, I obviously don't want to use rootdn for this, so I created a new
> user and I'm using simple authentication (on an SSL layer).
>
> I get problems with access control, however, that prevent it from working.
>
>
>
>
> What I did:
>
>
> I created this user:
>
> dn: uid=slurpd,ou=users,dc=xxxxxxxx,dc=xx

> access to * by dn="uid=slurp,ou=users,dc=xxxxxxxx,dc=xx" write
> The problem is I cannot access the slave database with
> dn="uid=slurp,ou=users,dc=xxxxxxxx,dc=xx".
>
> What I get is:
>
> slave# ldapsearch -w xxxxxxx -D 'uid=slurp,ou=users,dc=xxxxxxxx,dc=xx' -b
> What am I doing wrong?


The user you created (uid=slurpd) is not the DN you gave access to 
(uid=slurp), assuming that isn't a typo and is a direct cut & paste.

--Quanah

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