[Freeipa-devel] [PATCH] LDAP update tool

Rich Megginson rmeggins at redhat.com
Thu Sep 11 20:41:15 UTC 2008


Rob Crittenden wrote:
> Tool for doing configuration updates over LDAP
>
> This tool takes as input a file which contains basically an LDIF, 
> prefixed with a command: default, add, remove or only. These define 
> the operations to perform such as adding new entries, adding new 
> sub-entries to an existing entry, adding or modifying attributes in a 
> record.
>
> If an index entry is modified a task is created to re-create the index.
>
> Schema may be added using this tool.
>
> The idea of this tool is that we can provide a directory of change 
> files and iterate through them and have the IPA configuration updated.
>
> The syntax can be found at http://freeipa.org/page/LdapUpdate
>
> I haven't integrated this into the install process yet but we should 
> be able to eliminate initializing the DS with LDIFs and instead just 
> use update files. For starters though the installer will just try to 
> run through them once things are all set up.
ack
>
> rob
>
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