Re: translucent overlay with local-only entries

[Sven Ulland <sveniu@ifi.uio.no>]

Gavin Henry wrote:
> ----- "Sven Ulland" <sveniu@ifi.uio.no> wrote:
>
> > Gavin Henry wrote:
> > [...]
> > > > Are they really correct? With local-only entries working well (as
> > > > they should, with my recent version of openldap), I would assume
> > > > that local-only would return local-only entries, and that
> > > > local-and-remote would return both remote and local entries.
> > > So are you getting local entries at all?
> > I see local *modifications*, yes. Example: A remote entry with
> > uid=andrew is edited on the translucent extension with a new
> > description. When searching, I see the locally changed description
> > without problems.
> >
> > On the other hand, when I create *entries* that only exist on the
> > translucent extension, I never see any sign of them when searching.
> > I do see them when running slapcat, so they are indeed present in
> > the local database.
> >
> > This should be fixed with Howard's 2.4.8 patch some time ago, so I
> > can only assume there's something strange with my config or the
> > 2.4.10 Debian build. I will try to build a vanilla OpenLDAP from
> > source as soon as I have time.
>
> OK, thanks. Does a slapcat of the local db show the new entries
> you've added to existing remote ones?

I assume you mean new and/or modified attributes. Yes, those are shown
as well, with all the needed glue records in place. So as far as I
can see, writing new entries/attributes works perfectly fine, but the
searching does not. I'll send an update after trying the vanilla distr.

sven