Andrew Bartlett wrote:
On Fri, 2008-01-11 at 17:51 +0100, Pierangelo Masarati wrote:
> Andrew Bartlett wrote:
>> I perhaps should have flagged this earlier, but I wanted to actually
>> have the test to prove it.
> [snip]
>
>> The 'member' attribute on the group is wrong, most likely because such a
>> subtree rename would never cause the memberOf module to fire and notice
>> that this needs updating.
> Yes, slapo-memberof(5) does not consider the possibility of a subtree
> rename, and thus takes no care of it. I believe at the time it was
> implemented, this was not possible (in back-hdb), or not feasible (given
> the impossibility to search portions of a DN-valued attribute):
> slapo-memberof(5) was added to OpenLDAP sources August 2007, but
> initially implemented for OpenLDAP 2.2.
>
> I think this change should be relatively easy right now, as a DN-valued
> can be searched with the dnSubtreeMatch rule to detect whether any
> member/memberOf values need to be modified.
>
> Please submit an ITS...
I've tried to, but I just get:
OpenLDAP
The system encountered a fatal error
After command: MAIL FROM: <abartlet(a)samba.org>
Received: 451 4.1.8 Domain of sender address abartlet(a)samba.org does not resolve
Aside from that problem, it appears that by stacking slapo-memberof and
slapo-refint you should get the desired effect. I think this needs
quite a bit of testing, in case of unexpected cross-effects.
p.
Ing. Pierangelo Masarati
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