[Freeipa-users] Replica not syncing 'memberOf' attributes

Thu Oct 7 02:03:34 UTC 2010

Dan Scott wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 19:29, Nathan Kinder <nkinder at redhat.com> wrote:
>   
>> On 10/06/2010 03:08 PM, Dan Scott wrote:
>>     
>>> I'm not sure which group this is referring to. Admins only contains 3
>>> users, no nested groups.
>>>
>>>       
>> Do any other groups have a "member" attribute that points to your
>> "cn=admins" group's DN?  The error message indicates that some other group
>> has your admins group as a member.
>>     
>
> Yes, I do have another group of which admins is a member. I have
> removed it temporarily. Would this be a problem normally?
>   
I'm not sure how the memberOf plugin is supposed to handle situations 
like this.
> Thanks,
>
> Dan
>
>   
>> -NGK
>>     
>>> The problem appears to be related to the users, rather than the
>>> groups. None of the users on ohm have a 'memberOf'. Curie has the
>>> correct memberOf attributes.
>>>
>>> The groups themselves appear to be correct on both servers. Both ohm
>>> and curie have groups which contain the correct 'member' attributes.
>>> So the problem appears to be that ohm contains groups with correct
>>> 'members', but none of the users have any 'memberOf's.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Dan
>>>
>>> On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 16:17, Rich Megginson<rmeggins at redhat.com>  wrote:
>>>
>>>       
>>>> Dan Scott wrote:
>>>>
>>>>         
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> ohm_admins.ldif and curie_admins.ldif attached. I added a '-h
>>>>> $hostname' to the command to ensure that I queried both servers. The
>>>>> results look identical to me, apart from the ordering.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>
>>>>> Dan
>>>>>
>>>>> On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 15:34, Rob Crittenden<rcritten at redhat.com>
>>>>>  wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>           
>>>>>> Dan Scott wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>             
>>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 11:32, Simo Sorce<ssorce at redhat.com>    wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>               
>>>>>>>> On Wed, 6 Oct 2010 10:26:48 -0400
>>>>>>>> Dan Scott<danieljamesscott at gmail.com>    wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>                 
>>>>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> I have master and slave FreeIPA servers. I recently upgraded the
>>>>>>>>> slave
>>>>>>>>> by wiping, re-installing Fedora 13 and re-creating the replication
>>>>>>>>> using ipa-replica-prepare and ipa-replica-install.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> For some reason, the slave is having difficulty replicating the
>>>>>>>>> memberOf attribute. I can attach an LDAP viewer to the replica, and
>>>>>>>>> view the schema, but the memberOf attributes are missing. Also, the
>>>>>>>>> master server contains the lines:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> - Entry "cn=admins,cn=groups,cn=accounts,dc=example,dc=com" --
>>>>>>>>> attribute "memberOf" not allowed
>>>>>>>>> NSMMReplicationPlugin - repl_set_mtn_referrals: could not set
>>>>>>>>> referrals for replica dc=example,dc=com: 20
>>>>>>>>> NSMMReplicationPlugin - replica_reload_ruv: Warning: new data for
>>>>>>>>> replica dc=example,dc=com does not match the data in the changelog.
>>>>>>>>>  Recreating the changelog file. This could affect replication with
>>>>>>>>> replica's  consumers in which case the consumers should be
>>>>>>>>> reinitialized.
>>>>>>>>> [06/Oct/2010:09:58:33 -0400] - skipping cos definition cn=account
>>>>>>>>> inactivation,cn=accounts,dc=example,dc=com--no templates found
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> The rest of the replication appears to be working correctly (as far
>>>>>>>>> as
>>>>>>>>> I can tell).
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> I have tried using ipa-replica-manage init and synch to try to fix
>>>>>>>>> the
>>>>>>>>> replication, but I suspect this has something to do with the schema
>>>>>>>>> definition.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Does anyone have any pointers/ideas for how I can fix this?
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>                   
>>>>>>>> Dan, the memberof attribute is explicitly not replicated, and should
>>>>>>>> be
>>>>>>>> simply re-generated on the receiving replica when "member" attributes
>>>>>>>> are replicated.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>                 
>>>>>>> So does this imply that there is some corruption in the schema on the
>>>>>>> replica server?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>               
>>>>>>>> Are the IPA versions on the master and the replica the same ?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>                 
>>>>>>> They are both the same version: ipa-server-1.2.2-4.fc13.x86_64
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Dan Scott
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>               
>>>>>> It is complaining that memberOf isn't allowed in the admins group which
>>>>>> is
>>>>>> pretty strange.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Can you show us the admins group out of the replica and master?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> ldapsearch -x -b 'cn=groups,cn=accounts,dc=example,dc=com' cn=admins
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>             
>>>> Neither one has the inetUser objectclass which allows the use of
>>>> memberOf.
>>>>  But why is it attempting to add memberOf to this entry which is itself a
>>>> group entry?  Is this some sort of nested group?
>>>>
>>>>         
>>>>>> thanks
>>>>>>
>>>>>> rob
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
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