[Freeipa-devel] [PATCH] LDAP update tool

Rob Crittenden rcritten at redhat.com
Fri Sep 12 20:05:37 UTC 2008


Rich Megginson wrote:
> Rob Crittenden wrote:
>> Tool for doing configuration updates over LDAP
>>
>> This tool takes as input a file which contains basically an LDIF, 
>> prefixed with a command: default, add, remove or only. These define 
>> the operations to perform such as adding new entries, adding new 
>> sub-entries to an existing entry, adding or modifying attributes in a 
>> record.
>>
>> If an index entry is modified a task is created to re-create the index.
>>
>> Schema may be added using this tool.
>>
>> The idea of this tool is that we can provide a directory of change 
>> files and iterate through them and have the IPA configuration updated.
>>
>> The syntax can be found at http://freeipa.org/page/LdapUpdate
>>
>> I haven't integrated this into the install process yet but we should 
>> be able to eliminate initializing the DS with LDIFs and instead just 
>> use update files. For starters though the installer will just try to 
>> run through them once things are all set up.
> ack

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