[Fedora-directory-users] Question on password changes

[Richard Megginson]

Bliss, Aaron wrote:

>I have a quick question on password changes; my current setup is the
>following: I have 2 directory servers, single master environment
>(supplier and consumer); I understand that all changes to the directory
>have to be made by the supplier and are then replicated to the consumer;
>when a client server binds to the consumer and a user attempts to change
>their password, they receive an unknown error response from the server,
>and changes are not made; simply configuring the client's ldap.conf file
>to bind first with the supplier resolved this issue, however I was
>wondering if it's possible to configure the consumer in such a way that
>he will refer the update to take place on the supplier instead of
>rejecting the change to the database?
>
Yes, that's what should be happening.  When you send the modify password 
request to the consumer, it should send back a referral to the 
supplier.  You can see this in the access log - a MOD request followed 
by a response with err=10 (referral).  If however the client is using 
the password modify extended operation, I don't think that is referred 
to the supplier.  In this case, you will see EXT as the operation type 
in the access log for the request.

>I would have thought that the
>consumer would simply refer changes automatically to the supplier, but
>that doesn't seem to be the case.  Any thoughts?
>
Check the access logs, as above.

>I do know that I can
>configure both servers to be masters, but I was hoping to avoid this
>(I've read thru some of the directory server documentation citing errors
>and so forth in a multi-master environment) Thanks.
>  
>
http://directory.fedora.redhat.com/wiki/Howto:ChainOnUpdate

However, I don't think we chain the password change extended operation.

>Aaron
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