Re: [Fedora-directory-users] questions about 2 node multi-master setup

[Rich Megginson]

Luke Schierer wrote:
>  On Tue, Sep 02, 2008 at 11:19:55AM -0600, Rich Megginson wrote:
>    
> > Luke Schierer wrote:
> >     
> >> On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 03:06:04PM -0400, Luke Schierer wrote:
> >>   
> >>       
> >>> Hi,
> >>> I just set up Fedora Directory Server on two nodes, and have set up
> >>> multi-master replication between them following the directions at
> >>> http://directory.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Howto:WalkthroughMultimasterSSL
> >>>
> >>> It seems to mostly work, but I have a few questions.
> >>>
> >>> 1)After initializing nodeB and restarting nodesA and B, I can no
> >>> longer connect to nodeB with the Console application.  If I type in
> >>> its hostname, it connects, but I can only open up the slapd directory
> >>> if nodeA is up.  I can continue to log into nodes authenticating
> >>> against the pair, and I can use the command line utities to connect to
> >>> nodeB.  Any ideas what I might be doing wrong?
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> 2)if I change a password (using the passwd command on a client) while
> >>> nodeA is down, or add a user with ldapmodify while nodeA is down, the
> >>> change does not seem to replicate back to nodeA after it comes back
> >>> up.  Do I have to force an initialization in such cases?
> >>>
> >>> Thanks,
> >>> Luke
> >>>     
> >>>         
> >> A couple of additional details.  This is on a 32-bit Redhat Enterprise
> >> 5 server.  The first issue only happens if I set it to replicate
> >> ou=NetscapeRoot, which appears to be necessary for the global password
> >> policy to replicate.
> >>       
> > I don't think that is true.  What leads you to believe that?
> >     
>
>  Because I tried once without having the ou=NetscapeRoot set to
>  replicate, and the password policy did not show as set on the other
>  console.  Still, perhaps I did something wrong.
>     
That's really weird - the global password policy is stored in cn=config, 
not in o=NetscapeRoot, so I'm not sure why replication would have 
anything to do with this.
>    
> >> Is there a better way to achieve this?
> >>   
> >>       
> > Have you seen this - http://tinyurl.com/6apcfq
> >     
>
>  I had not, my fault for now reading the full manual it appears, as it
>  has extra steps for setting up the second instance.  I will try with
>  these directions.
>
>  Thanks for the pointer!!
>
>  Luke
>
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