[Fedora-directory-users] Configuring replication and creating the supplier bind DN

[Rich Megginson]

Christopher Waltham wrote:
> Is there a tutorial out there anywhere for setting up master/slave (as 
> opposed to multi-master) replication?
Well, it's pretty similar.
> I'm having issues getting the replication agreement setup; I've 
> created cn=replication manager inside of cn=config but I get error 
> messages when trying to create the agreement.
What error messages?
> When I use cn=Directory Manager instead, it works -- so it's not a 
> networking issue.
>
> I've tried various permutations of cn=replication manager inside the 
> "Simple authentication" field on the "Source and Destination" tab of 
> the replication agreement tab, but with no success. I've checked the 
> FDS FAQ & Wiki and can't find a walk-through...
What error messages do you get?
>
>
> Chris
>
> On Dec 3, 2008, at 12:40 PM, Rich Megginson wrote:
>
>> Christopher Waltham wrote:
>>> I'm having a little trouble creating a simple, master/slave 
>>> replication configuring using FDS 1.1.3. I'm following the Red Hat 
>>> documentation here: 
>>> http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/dir-server/ag/8.0/Creating_the_Supplier_Bind_DN_Entry.html but 
>>> am having trouble creating the supplier bind DN.
>>>
>>> This is what I'm appending to /etc/dirsrv/slapd-ldap/dse.ldif:
>>>
>>> dn: cn=replication manager,cn=config
>>> objectClass: inetorgperson
>>> objectClass: person
>>> objectClass: top
>>> cn: replication manager
>>> sn: RM
>>> userPassword: secretPassword
>>> passwordExpirationTime: 20380119031407Z
>>>
>>> However, as soon as I start the directory server back up, the 
>>> changes I made to dse.ldif disappear. Am I missing something?
>> Yes.  You cannot edit dse.ldif while the server is running.  If you 
>> really want to edit dse.ldif, you must shutdown the server first.
>>
>> If you did stop the server first, make sure there is a blank line 
>> before dn: cn=replication manager,cn=config - a blank line is the 
>> entry delimiter in LDIF - if there is no blank line, the server may 
>> just report a warning to the error log and continue.
>>
>> But you do not have to do that - you can just use ldapmodify -a to 
>> add this entry while the server is running
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>>
>>>
>>> Chris
>
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