Andrew Findlay wrote: >> We have a tool (BMC Identity Management (formerly Control-SA)) > > Check how it modifies the groups. First of all it's not clear to me whether the original poster really meant group entries. > If it rewrites the whole set of 'member' attributes each time then you are > forcing the server to re-index every value. Not only that it's horribly inefficient. With this approach you run into the famous security issue back in those Windows 2000 days where removed group members were accidently re-added because of concurrent write access. > The efficient way to do this is to specify the value that you want to > remove or the one you want to add. It should be very quick. Additionally LDAP PDUs manipulating many values at once grow very big. > Also look at your replication setup. With this sort of data you really > do need delta mode. delta-syncrepl would only help if group membership is changed only for a few members in one modify request. Ciao, Michael.
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