Not "surely"; the envisioned use case was a small
departmental server
customizing a small amount of data mastered by a main server.
Replication was
never a requirement in the original spec.
Which isn't to say it's not possible, as anything is possible with software,
right?
File a RFE?
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Kind Regards,
Gavin Henry.
OpenLDAP Engineering Team.
E ghenry(a)OpenLDAP.org
Community developed LDAP software.
http://www.openldap.org/project/