Re: olcSubordinate versus Chaining

[Warren Howard <warren@madtechsupport.com>]

On 13/07/12 2:15 AM, Warren Howard wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I'm setting up a replicated directory service, so far I have a single 
> provider and a single consumer with Syncrepl in refreshOnly mode.  The 
> consumer is a complete shadow copy of the provider, ldap clients can 
> read from the consumer but not write to the consumer because it is a 
> shadow copy.  Next I would like "refer" ldap clients that wish to 
> write to the consumer to the provider. Based on the notes here : 
> http://www.openldap.org/doc/admin24/referrals.html, I would like to 
> how to do this by using the olcSubordinate keyword. I've read the 
> olcSubordinate section in slapd-config man page and I don't see a way 
> forward and I'm not even sure that using olcSubordinate is the correct 
> approach, since the steps described in 
> http://www.openldap.org/doc/admin24/overlays.html#Chaining appear more 
> relevant to set up I'm attempting.
>
> Any guidance much appreciated.
Hi,

I'm just looking for a nod in the right direction.  I'll re-phrase my 
question, how would you set up up a single provider (single master) with 
one or more consumers (one or more slaves) so that clients which try to 
write to a slave are able to do so because the slave handles the 
referral to the master and the client knows not that the slave directory 
it is connecting to is read-only?

Regards,


Warren.