OpenLDAP git repo?
by Volker Lendecke
Hi!
Out of several rumors I've heard that OpenLDAP converted it
source repo to git. Is that true? www.openldap.org still
speaks about cvs. If you changed to git, is the repo
publically available?
Thanks,
Volker
12 years, 2 months
OpenLDAP 2.5
by Howard Chu
With 2.4.21 out, and hopefully stable enough to promote to the next Stable
release, it's time to feature-freeze 2.4 and prepare for the 2.5 branch. As I
already announced to the OpenLDAP-Committers, we're also planning to switch
from CVS to GIT in mid-January. Commits for 2.5 will begin after we've settled
into GIT.
We haven't really laid out a formal roadmap for 2.5 yet, but I think most of
it has been discussed here or in Development ITSs already.
I would like to be able to resolve all outstanding Development ITSs - we will
either implement them or reject/close them. There are 42 outstanding at the
moment.
Likewise for all outstanding ITSs in Software Bugs - many of them have been
deferred because a proper fix would require invasive changes to large parts of
the code base. There are 26 outstanding. With 2.5 beginning we are free to
make these large scale changes.
We should also walk thru the Software Enhancement requests and decide which to
accept and which to reject. Currently there are 37 outstanding.
I also have a number of specific areas I want to see worked on; some of these
are included in the above ITSs but I'll outline them here:
syncrepl
config - this is pretty unwieldy already; syncrepl needs to be moved
outside of the slapd core and into an overlay. That will allow us a lot more
flexibility in configuring while also eliminating a lot of redundant parsing code.
suffixmassage - we at the very least need to be able to point a consumer
at some non-homogeneous suffix in the provider. We may go for complete
librewrite support as well, although at this point I don't see as strong a need.
config
TLS certs and keys should be stored as LDAP attributes, not pointers to
filesystem locations. This is a prereq to using some of the dynamic cert
generation features of the CA overlay. (This can be troublesome as there may
not be clean APIs for reading certs from memory in all of the TLS APIs we
support.)
Disabling individual config attribute values and entries. At the moment
I'm thinking of adding an ";x-disabled" tag to those values.
back-mdb
Using a single-level store for Entries will impact all of the schema
engine as well. I think the simplest solution here is going to be using an
mmap'd file for all of the schema elements.
The actual design of back-mdb still needs to be defined in several areas.
The single-level store approach exposes us to some new failure modes that the
current multi-level backends don't have. (E.g., corruptions due to bad RAM /
wild pointer writes are very likely to get persisted on disk, implicitly.)
The solution I'm considering is based on a mirroring strategy. Every
database will be stored twice on disk: once in the file that is actively
mmap'd into the process, and once in a write-only file. On every intentional
update of a memory page, we will also store a checksum of the page, and
manually write the page to the mirror. If we detect a checksum failure on any
in-memory page we can still retrieve a valid copy from the mirror file. This
of course doubles our potential I/O load, but I don't believe it's any worse
than the load from performing write-ahead logging on a traditional database.
(And yes, mirroring will take the place of writing transaction log files.)
Some of these same considerations apply to the schema storage, but not
entirely. At runtime, the schema is effectively read-only. When we do dynamic
schema changes thru cn=config, all other threads are suspended. For the mmap
purposes, we can mark all of the schema pages as read-only during runtime, and
only make them read-write when cn=config is actually trying to perform an
update. As such, the only sticky issue is dealing with changes made to the
back-config internal files by plain text editors and such.
These are the things I'm interested in. But as always, this Project is driven
forward by the particular interests of each individual contributor. If you
have other ideas you want to pursue, speak up.
--
-- Howard Chu
CTO, Symas Corp. http://www.symas.com
Director, Highland Sun http://highlandsun.com/hyc/
Chief Architect, OpenLDAP http://www.openldap.org/project/
13 years, 1 month
logging "reqEntryUUID" in accesslog?
by Michael Ströder
HI!
In web2ldap when displaying a single entry I have a button which directly
forms a filter for searching the audit log (accesslog DB) for the entry based
on the attribute 'reqDN'. This is handy but does not work anymore when entries
were renamed.
So how about logging the value of entryUUID of an entry affected by a write
operation in a separate attribute 'reqEntryUUID'?
Ciao, Michael.
13 years, 2 months
pcache logging
by masarati＠aero.polimi.it
I'd like to enhance pcache logging by adding the conn= op= prefix.
Objections?
p.
13 years, 2 months
liblutil/ultils.c: lutil_localtime() <g-differential> timestamp format bug?
by Daniel
Hi,
there seems to be a small problem in "lutil_localtime()" regarding the
creation of <g-differential> timestamp formated bervals:
The returned length "ret" (of type: size_t) of a timestamp value in
<g-differential> format contains the terminating "\0" which leads to
base64 encoded presentation...
For demonstration I've attached a minimal (and probably very dirty)
patch which fixed this issue for me, but I'm quite unsure whether:
- it's really a bug or I'm doing something completely wrong
- my patch represents a clean solution.
Therefore I've not opened an ITS. First of all I would appreciate your
valuable feedback, whether lutil_localtime() creates <g-differential>
timestamps like intended?
Thanks a lot!
Best regards
Daniel
Index: libraries/liblutil/utils.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /repo/OpenLDAP/pkg/ldap/libraries/liblutil/utils.c,v
retrieving revision 1.70
diff -u -r1.70 utils.c
--- libraries/liblutil/utils.c 20 Nov 2009 19:43:50 -0000 1.70
+++ libraries/liblutil/utils.c 20 Mar 2010 17:15:12 -0000
@@ -147,7 +147,7 @@
snprintf( p, smax - 15, "%02ld%02ld", delta / 3600,
( delta % 3600 ) / 60 );
- return ret + 5;
+ return ret + 4;
}
int lutil_tm2time( struct lutil_tm *tm, struct lutil_timet *tt )
13 years, 2 months
Altering the behavior of pcache to improve cache hit/miss ratio
by Ryan Steele
Hey folks,
I've been playing with pcache for about a week (in combination with back-ldap), testing various things and trying to
create a configuration that helps preserve system stability if access to the LDAP server disappears. Many things seem
to work well, but I noticed that quite a good number of Unix commands, like "id", request a user's full entry (i.e., no
filter string). In its current implementation, this will always fail to hit the cache, because (as the man page states)
you cannot specify an empty list of attributes. This means that even if you have all the information required to return
what was requested in the local cache, you will never be able to leverage that information.
Given that, I wanted to ask if it could be considered to change the design of the overlay a bit, such that if an empty
attribute list is specified, pcache will return every attribute *in the cache* for that entry, instead of blindly
assuming it doesn't have the information to accomplish the task. I understand the shortcomings this could introduce,
most notably if one did not want to cache every attribute for a particular entry and still wanted to be able to omit the
filter string and get the entry's full attribute list, but I think the benefits would make it worthwhile. I say that
for a few reasons: if you're using pcache and are interested in truly optimizing performance or keeping a system that is
LDAP-dependent from having major issues if the network disappears, it would make sense to cache every attribute for
entries used in common system tasks (e.g., using utilities like "id"). I believe this could also significantly improve
the hit/miss ratios, especially if you take a look at how many of these common system utilities make queries without
specifying any kind of filter.
I would think that this could be accomplished by adding a case for the empty filter string, such that it would take a
unison of each set of attributes corresponding to the cached entry for that particular LDAP filter, and returning the
result. If the same attribute is present in more than one cache entry matching the specified LDAP filter, the most
recent would be favored and returned, thereby preventing pcache from having choose between several
query-string-dependent entries for that entry, if more than one are present.
I'm interested to hear what you guys think of this. Even if my implementation ideas aren't 100% spot-on, I would think
that the wiser minds could adapt the general idea in to something more artful, provided they agree with the idea in
principle. Thanks!
-Ryan
13 years, 2 months
back-config delete support (syncprov overlay)
by Ralf Haferkamp
Hi,
while taking up some loose ends on my work on delete support for back-
config (enabled with -DSLAP_CONFIG_DELETE) I wondered how we should deal
with the deletion of the syncprov overlay when there are active
refreshAndPersist sessions. What errorcode should we sent when closing
such a connection? To me LDAP_UNAVAILABLE sound like the best choice.
LDAP_UNWILLING_TO_PERFORM might also be ok.
--
Ralf
13 years, 3 months
