Category Archives: LDAP

In December last year, I talked a bit about the issues affecting the OpenLDAP proxycaching project. This posting updates the current situation. Testing and Stability As a result of problems with slapd crashing, we turned on debugging in the LCFG … Continue reading →

These are the current main issues in the project for implementing a proxycaching OpenLDAP solution on our clients. The current focus is on increased testing, debugging crashes and contemplating 2.3 vs 2.4. Testing and stability We’re currently running proxycaching clients … Continue reading →

It’s worth noting this down as I don’t think it’s documented by openldap and every now and then it confuses me. It’s easiest to illustrate with an example… proxyattrset 0 uid gidNumber proxyattrset 1 memberUid gidNumber proxytemplate (&(objectClass=)(uid=)) 0 600 … Continue reading →

For a while now I’ve been investigating the possibility of replacing our current OpenLDAP client setup with one based on OpenLDAP and slapo-pcache. In short, all of our managed linux clients (DICE) run a full copy of our slapd database, … Continue reading →