topic Re: openldap authentication in Operating System - Linux

openldap authentication

nash11 — Thu, 03 Aug 2006 04:40:51 GMT

Hi,

I'm quite new to openldap so you will have to excuse any stupid questions from me.

I want to make my ldap server redundant so that if it fails another one could take over with no or very little down time.

Could someone explain to me how to do this or point me to some documentation.

Cheers

Re: openldap authentication

Steven E. Protter — Thu, 03 Aug 2006 06:22:14 GMT

Shalom,

Go for a master/slave server setup.

The master is the head server but the slaves will go on merrily serving the network should the master ever go down.

links:
best one:
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/5505

http://www.openldap.org/lists/openldap-software/200603/msg00160.html

http://www.umich.edu/~dirsvcs/ldap/doc/guides/slapd/3.html

SEP

Re: openldap authentication

nash11 — Thu, 03 Aug 2006 10:18:23 GMT

thx for your prompt help,

I would like to confirm again , I guess this replication ( slurpd ) of master and slave can replicate the user id/password so that users can use the ldap authenication in either server . Does this funcation fit my requirement - the slave one could take over the work of the master one when the master is corrupted or shutdown suddenly ? thx

Re: openldap authentication

Ivan Ferreira — Thu, 03 Aug 2006 11:04:36 GMT

Yes, the slave can authenticate users in the case of the master down.

Re: openldap authentication

George Liu_4 — Thu, 03 Aug 2006 11:33:17 GMT

It can certainly meet your requirement. Don't forget to put both ldap hosts in your client's ldap configuration files.