Re: Referrals

["Dieter Kluenter" <dieter@dkluenter.de>]

"Or Goshen" <oberonc@gmail.com> writes:

> Hello
>
> I have the following situation and would like to know your opinion on the
> matter:
>
> I have 2 slapd servers A and B, both require simple authentication and are not
> open for anonymous access.
> What I would like to do is setup a node on A that would reference the root of
> B and would allow me to perform read/write to it.
>
> I tried so far:
>
> 1. Setup a "referral" objectClass on A in the following manner:
>
> dn: dc=B,ou=Subservers,dc=example,dc=com
> dc: B
> objectClass: referral
> objectClass: extensibleObject
> ref: ldap://B/dc=example,dc=com
>
> That didnt work since B requires authentication. So I tried this:
>
> dn: dc=B,ou=Subservers,dc=example,dc=com
> dc: B
> objectClass: referral
> objectClass: extensibleObject
> ref: ldap://??B??!bindname=cn=Manager%2cdc=example%2cdc=com/dc=example,dc=com
>
> Didnt work either (authentication extension not supported ?).
>
> 2. slapd apparently supports an "ldap" backend/database. Problem is that there
> is no real documentation here or here on how to set them up. Anybody ever
> setup such a database/backend ? does it support authentication ? any examples
> I can take a look at ?
>
> I dont want to replication B on A, I just want to act as a proxy.

There is plenty of information on back-ldap available, 
http://www.openldap.org/faq/data/cache/532.html

For more details see man slapd-ldap(5), man slapd-meta(5) and try
to glue databases, following  configfuration is just a simple hint

database bdb
suffix dc=A,ou=subservers,dc=example,dc=com
...
subordinate

database ldap
suffix ou=subservers,dc=example,dc=com
uri ldap://host.example.com
...

-Dieter

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