On Tuesday, 22 December 2009 14:57:14 Dieter Kluenter wrote: > 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,
The most important ones (pam_ldap, samba) do. Regards, Buchan
