Full_Name: Yuri Bank Version: 2.4.23-24 OS: Linux Ubuntu 10.10 URL: http://yuri.easytospell.net/consumer.provider.txt Submission from: (NULL) (67.180.182.165)

This issue exists in both versions 2.4.23 and 2.4.24

I've found an interesting problem with delta-sync replication in which the ContextCSN on my consumers is higher than the contextCSN on my provider. This is because the Provider does not properly update its contextCSN for its base suffix (dc=test,dc=com) when changes are made to group membership. Of couse, if it so happens that the last change in my database was not a group membership change, then the contextCSNs will be consistent between my consumers and provider.

I use the following command to check the ContextCSN on each consumer:

Consumer: 1 root@neteng1.oak:/etc/ldap# ldapsearch -Y EXTERNAL -H ldapi:/// -s base -b "dc=test,dc=com" contextCSN dn: dc=test,dc=com dn: dc=test,dc=com contextCSN: 20110313041653.752098Z#000000#000#000000

Consumer: 2 ybank@neteng1.iad:~$ ldapsearch -Y EXTERNAL -H ldapi:/// -s base -b "dc=test,dc=com" contextCSN dn: dc=test,dc=com dn: dc=test,dc=com contextCSN: 20110313041653.752098Z#000000#000#000000

So we can see that the two consumers have matching contextCSNs: ContextCSN. 20110313041653.752098Z#000000#000#000000

Lets check the Provider now.

Provider: root@neteng0.iad:~# ldapsearch -Y EXTERNAL -H ldapi:/// -s base -b "dc=test,dc=com" ContextCSN dn: dc=test,dc=com dn: dc=test,dc=com contextCSN: 20110313041653.709140Z#000000#000#000000

The providers CSN is smaller!?

Lets take a closer look and search cn=accesslog

These are the last two entries: ( first the user was added, and then the user was added to a group)

# 20110313041653.000003Z, accesslog dn: reqStart=20110313041653.000003Z,cn=accesslog objectClass: auditAdd reqStart: 20110313041653.000003Z reqEnd: 20110313041653.000004Z reqType: add reqSession: 34633 reqAuthzID: cn=admin,dc=test,dc=com reqDN: cn=Bank\2C Yuri(banky),o=UserAccounts,dc=test,dc=com reqResult: 0 reqMod: sn:+ Bank reqMod: userPassword:+ {SASL}banky reqMod: uid:+ banky reqMod: objectClass:+ top reqMod: objectClass:+ person reqMod: objectClass:+ shadowAccount reqMod: structuralObjectClass:+ person reqMod: cn:+ Bank, Yuri(banky) reqMod: entryUUID:+ 78a75ef6-e174-102f-9571-ffecbfef68e5 reqMod: creatorsName:+ cn=admin,dc=test,dc=com reqMod: createTimestamp:+ 20110313041653Z reqMod: entryCSN:+ 20110313041653.709140Z#000000#000#000000 reqMod: modifiersName:+ cn=admin,dc=test,dc=com reqMod: modifyTimestamp:+ 20110313041653Z

# 20110313041653.000006Z, accesslog dn: reqStart=20110313041653.000006Z,cn=accesslog objectClass: auditModify reqStart: 20110313041653.000006Z reqEnd: 20110313041653.000007Z reqType: modify reqSession: 34633 reqAuthzID: cn=admin,dc=test,dc=com reqDN: cn=SSLVPN,o=Groups,dc=test,dc=com reqResult: 0 reqMod: member:+ cn=Bank\2C Yuri(banky),o=UserAccounts,dc=test,dc=com reqMod: entryCSN:= 20110313041653.752098Z#000000#000#000000 reqMod: modifiersName:= cn=admin,dc=test,dc=com reqMod: modifyTimestamp:= 20110313041653Z

You can see that the consumers have the latest entryCSN (20110313041653.752098Z) as their contextCSN, but the provider has the entryCSN (20110313041653.709140Z) before that as its contextCSN:

If I search the contextCSN on -s base -b cn=accesslog it yields correctly, the same result as the consumers: 20110313041653.752098Z#000000#000#000000

As you can see, the provider is not using the latest entryCSN as its ContextCSN, where as the consumer nodes are. Also notice that the last modification was to group membership. This problem only seems to exist when Adding/Removing users from a group.

A side effect of this issue causes brand new consumers to get stuck in an infinite loop while syncing for the first time.

A work around is to make a random change to a User/Person, such as injecting a random number into their description field AFTER making a change to a group membership. Such a change will: A. cause the Provider to correctly update its contextCSN, B. provider and all consumer[s] will have the same contextCSN C. brand new consumers can be added without getting stuck in an infinite loop when syncing the database. ( they seem to get stuck on the last entry which makes sense if the last entry has a higher entryCSN than that of the Providers contextCSN? )

Confgiuration: ( See URL ) http://yuri.easytospell.net/consumer.provider.txt

Overlays: syncprov accesslog memberof

Please feel free to email me about reproducing this problem. I have a lab with various configurations and would be happy to give access to anyone interested.

- Yuri Bank