[Fedora-directory-users] multi master replication over SSL

[Richard Megginson]

Susan wrote:

>--- Richard Megginson <rmeggins at redhat.com> wrote:
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>>If the consumer can verify and validate the suppliers cert, as in 
>>certificate based auth, then it should work.  Otherwise, you can just 
>>use regular SSL replication with password auth.
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>OK, I understand.  I don't care about cert-based SSL, so I'll go with the simple auth then.
>
>I'm  not sure who wrote the mmr.pl script
>(http://directory.fedora.redhat.com/wiki/Howto:MultiMasterReplication) but I must say thank you,
>author, the script works trouble free, as advertised.  However, I don't see anything in there
>about replication over SSL.  And it doesn't look like I can convert it to SSL, once the
>replication is established using mmr.pl, is that correct?
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No, I think you can.  You just need to edit the replication agreement to 
use ssl and connect to the ssl port. 

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>>Will that allow you to do certificate based auth, or just SSL encryption 
>>of the channel with password based auth?  If so, then it's the same as 
>>regular replication with SSL and passwords without certificate based au
>>    
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>no, you're right, it's the same thing, so no point in using stunnel then.  Nevermind.
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