Re: Setup syncrepl on Redhat Fedora

Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote:

--On Tuesday, June 07, 2011 12:37 PM -0700 Howard Chuhyc@symas.com wrote:

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On Ubuntu you would leave slapd running and just do this (as root):

However, he is on Fedora, not Ubuntu, and hopefully they don't have the obnoxious ldapi:/// as root requirement.

There's nothing obnoxious about that; it's far simpler than requiring the admin to discover any secret credential that was automatically assigned to the DB, and obviously superior to leaving the DB with no credential at all, or with a well-known default that admins leave unchanged, leaving themselves vulnerable to whatever script-kiddie comes along down the road.