[Fedora-directory-users] Re: Referential Integrity

[Tim Hartmann]

I folks,

Did anyone have any thoughts on this? If not, I think I'll just enable
it and start testing....  :) 

Tim


Tim Hartmann wrote:
> So After my trials and tribulations with " Referrals for Update
> Operations"  (thanks again, you guys rock!) hence  known as "Tim's
> continuing  LDAP Saga and Viking Cha-Cha"
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> I came across "Referential Integrity" in the docs, and boy howdy does it
> look useful!
> http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/dir-server/ag/8.0/Creating_Directory_Entries-Maintaining_Referential_Integrity.html
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> I had a couple of concerns, before I enabled it that I was hoping people
> could chime in on!
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> 1) I'd like to have Referential Integrity monitor the memberUid field as
> well, but I was unclear in the documentation if when scanning the
> directory if it scans ALL the directories hosted by a given server, or
> just searches in the directory where the user was deleted?
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> for example, I have two root suffixes,  both of which contain  users and
> groups ,  and more often then we'd like user "foo" exists in both...
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> dc=example,dc=edu
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> dc=dept,dc=example,dc=edu
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> if I delete user uid=foo,ou=People,dc=dept,dc=example,dc=edu
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> would the Referential Integrity plug in know to leave  any instance of 
> "uid=foo" and "memberUid=foo" in the dc=example,dc=edu branch alone?
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> 2) I have 2 Masters (set up to be Multi Masters) and 4 Replica's,  There
> are a number of warnings about setting this up only on 1 of the Masters
> (which shouldn't be a problem), in the case that M1 is configured with
> the Referential Integrity plug in, and it goes down for some amount of
> time, and a user is deleted, will the plugin "Catch up" once M1 has been
> brought back online?
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> Thanks for the input!
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> Tim
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