Jaap Winius <[email protected]> writes: > Hi all, > > Although I've figured out the basics of synchronization between > providers and consumers, I'm not yet clear about one aspect from the > client's perspective. > > In particular, if you've set up an LDAP consumer server with a > synchronized, read-only copy of the DIT to service a particular group > of clients, and you've configured those clients* to use that consumer > server for all of their directory queries, how do those clients know > where to find the correct provider in case it becomes necessary for > them to write to the DIT (e.g. to change a password)?
Clients trying to write to a consumer get a referral response, which is defined as updateref in slapd,conf. But quite q few clients don't know how to handle referrals, for this you may configure slapdo-chain(5). -Dieter -- Dieter Klünter | Systemberatung http://dkluenter.de GPG Key ID:8EF7B6C6 53°37'09,95"N 10°08'02,42"E
