Hi Ondřej,

 

A byzantine java application connects to the LDAP server, and somehow uses the information presented to trigger API requests to business logic, eventually resulting in the data being replicated to a relational database. If olcSpNoPresent is honoured, this works. It it’s ignored, it dies with an error.  I have, as yet, been unable to find an engineer who can explain this behaviour to me, and this code is largely forgotten.

 

It seems reasonable to me that if I configure slapd to not do a Present phase, then it shouldn’t do a Present phase? Am I wrong?

 

Thanks!

 

Lisa

 

From: Ondřej Kuzník <ondra@mistotebe.net>
Date: Wednesday, 9 March 2022 at 16:32
To: Lisa Parratt <Lisa.Parratt@bjss.com>
Cc: Quanah Gibson-Mount <quanah@fast-mail.org>, openldap-technical@openldap.org <openldap-technical@openldap.org>
Subject: Re: syncprov olcSpNoPresent not being honoured

On Wed, Mar 09, 2022 at 09:04:49AM +0000, Lisa Parratt wrote:
> Hi Quanah,
>
> It’s not a replication setup. The consumer is a relatively ancient
> proprietary implementation of the syncrepl protocol, over which I have
> very influence.
>
> I believe the problem is syncprov.c lines 3335 and 3341, which appear
> to be setting `do_present = SS_PRESENT;` while simultaneously ignoring
> the value of si->si_nopres. Replacing the lines above with `if (
> !si->si_nopres ) do_present = SS_PRESENT;` appears to fix the problem
> for my use case, and is closer to how the logic worked in previous
> versions of slapd.

Hi Lisa,
I find it strange that you maintain a sessionlog (or use accesslog to host
it) yet don't want to host a present/delete phase which is where they
are useful. Could you explain what you're trying to achieve with your
set up?

--
Ondřej Kuzník
Senior Software Engineer
Symas Corporation                       http://www.symas.com
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