Re: issues with proxycache overlay

[Pierangelo Masarati <ando@sys-net.it>]

Thomas Seifert wrote:

> Thats it. The ibmslapd seems to assume a default search base while I had
> to enter one for openldap in ldap.conf or on the command-line.
> Now I'm getting the expected results back!

:)

>> ^^^^ this is incorrect.  As the man page clearly states, no "DN" portion
>> must be provided in the URI (you should have gotten a warning about it,
>> but who cares about warnings, eh?  Next version it'll error out).
>>   
> Well, yeah. That didn't help directly either, but see above, it works now.
> Could someone please fix the html-docs too if the manpages are the
> reference?
> http://www.openldap.org/doc/admin23/proxycache.html
> It shows at least the wrong uri-syntax and the wrong name for the overlay.

Good catch!  Apparently that doc was crafted from an example using
back-meta as the proxy; in fact, back-meta needs the DN portion.  Please
file an ITS for this <http://www.openldap.org/>.

Thanks, p.



Ing. Pierangelo Masarati
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