[389-users] Filtered replication from AD?

[Colin Panisset]

I think I've answered part of my own question by trolling through the 
source; in 
ldap/servers/plugins/replication/repl5_agmt.c:agmt_parse_excluded_attrs_filter() 
the explicit string '(objectclass=*)' is searched for and, if found, 
thrown away before the EXCLUDE is processed.

So the goal here is to have user password changes and account 
terminations make it from AD -> 389-ds, without having all entries from 
AD show up.

I would be happy with some kind of (unix filesystem-speak) symlink 
capability from one suffix to another, but I don't know the right 
terminology to use in searching for documentation on doing this. Any 
suggestions would be welcome.

   -- C.

On 01/25/2013 11:07 AM, Colin Panisset wrote:
> We have two separate directory environments at present, one 389-ds
> (389-ds-base-1.2.10.2-20.el6_3.x86_64) and one AD based on W2k8.
>
> We would like to be able to replicate user entries, password changes,
> and employee terminations from AD to 389-ds but, because the 389-ds
> environment is a restricted subset, we don't want all new users in the
> AD domain to automatically appear in 389-ds.
>
> I've seen https://fedorahosted.org/389/ticket/460 which looks like it
> would do the job, but the milestone is 1.3.2 which is a ways off.
>
> The suffixes in use by the different directory servers are different --
> one is dc=example,dc=com and the other is dc=otherplace,dc=com
>
> Complicating the matter is that the two directories are managed by
> different OUs in the same company.
>
> Other than referrals, is there some way to copy/replicate attributes
> from one suffix to another, or to change the suffix during a replication?
>
> Fractional replication uses the filter '(objectclass=*)' prior to the $
> EXCLUDE but would it be possible to extend that to cover a smaller
> subset of entries? We're not interested in replicating from 389-ds back
> to AD at this point.
>

-- 
Colin Panisset
Senior Systems Engineer, REA Group
Ph: +61 (0)3 8456 4636 Mb: +61 (0) 457 788 259