[389-users] OpenLDAP as a slave of Fedora Directory Server?

[George Holbert]

Currently, OpenLDAP and 389 have totally different replication 
mechanisms, so you can't really replicate between the two.
You can of course export / import filtered LDIF in either direction, 
which, depending on the need, is occasionally good enough.

Anne Cross wrote:
> I've been through the FDS/389 website, and the best I've come up with is 
> this: http://directory.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Howto:OpenldapIntegration
>
> Unfortunately, that gives me the sync in the wrong direction.  We have 
> pre-existing OpenLDAP servers that belong to a different group.  We're 
> supposed to be their ultimate source of data - once we get set up - but 
> they won't change their servers from OpenLDAP because, as they say, they 
> know how they work and why should they do more work.
>
> I don't need data synced back from OpenLDAP, but syncrepl doesn't appear 
> to do the right thing when pointed at an FDS directory server, so what's 
> the secret, undocumented method?  Even a hint would help.  Google just 
> keeps turning up pages where people have named their box "Fedora" and 
> it's all openldap to openldap.
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