Re: extend remote server with local (subordinate) entries

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

Hi,

Oren Laadan <orenl@cs.columbia.edu> writes:

> Dieter Kluenter wrote:
>> Oren Laadan <orenl@cs.columbia.edu> writes:
>>
>>> Hi,

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> So with the new setup I try to accomplish something similar - extend
> the remote database with local entries, using "subordinate". Problem
> is that subordinate doesn't merge two databases with the same DN, but
> instead extends one with the second as a "subtree", and autofs doesn't
> like it :(
>
> As for your suggestions:
>
> slapo-transparent: according to the man page it is designed to change
> or add attributes of/to an entry; I'm not sure how to use it to change
> the apparent DN of the entry ?
>
> slapo-rwm: I tried to add this two lines after the "subordinate" line:
>   overlay                rwm
>   rwm-suffixmassage      "dc=EXAMPLE,dc=COM"
> and it didn't do any good. In fact, the group queries stopped working
> as well (from the extended database).
>
> Can you be more specific as to how to glue everything together ?

something like

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

overlay translucent
uri ldap://some.host
acl-bind binddn=cn=somebody,dc=example,dc=com
         credential=secret
more options

-Dieter

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