Re: Recommendations for adding "MUST" attribute to in-production objectclass?

[Michael Ströder <michael@stroeder.com>]

Howard Chu wrote:
> Michael Ströder wrote:
>> Hallvard B Furuseth wrote:
>>> Quanah Gibson-Mount writes:
>>>> <demarco@maya.com>  wrote:
>>>>> Is there a better way of adding a required attribute to an
>>>>> in-production objectclass?
>>>> Stop your server, export your database, use Perl's Net::LDAP::LDIF
>>>> to add
>>>> the attribute to every entry it applies to, put your updated schema
>>>> on the
>>>> server, and reload it with the updated LDIF file.
>>>
>>> Or if that gives too long downtime, you can run slapd in read-only mode
>>> with the old database while rebuilding the new database:
>>
>> According to the unsatisfying discussions we had on one of the mailing
>> lists about read-only mode and data consistency I find it really
>> problematic to recommend a procedure which relies on read-only mode.
>>
>> I'd recommend to update the schema, restart the server and do the
>> modifications via LDAP.
> 
> Restarting the server is not necessary.

...provided back-config is used. The original poster did not tell us
whether he's using slapd.conf or back-config.

Ciao, Michael.