[Fedora-directory-users] LDAP Proxy in Fedora Directory Server

[Rich Megginson]

Tim Hartmann wrote:
> Hi
>
> I've got a question on referrals and proxy in RHDS. I'm in mid migration
> from OpenLDAP and I ran into this stansa in the slapd.conf of the old
> replicas.
>
> database        ldap
> suffix          "cn=OracleContext,dc=school,dc=edu"
> uri             ldap://oidnames.sub.school.edu:8010/
>
> >From what I understand this is a proxy to one of our sister
> organizations LDAP servers (Sun Directory Server I think)
>
> I've been trying to replicate this functionality in my RHDS
> installation, and  so far i've not been able to. I've tried default
> referrals and that doesn't seem to work. I've tried to use smart
> referrals, but that doesn't seem to be the right usage for smart referrals.
>
> Will RHDS / FDS do LDAP proxying? Is there some other way that I should
> set up referrals to allow this sort of functionality to work?
>   
Referrals might work, if all of your clients are smart enough to know 
how to follow them.

I suggesting Chaining Database (aka Database Links) - 
http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/dir-server/ag/8.0/index.html
> Thanks in advance for your help!
>
> Tim
>
>
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