SLAPO-TRANSLUCENT(5)SLAPO-TRANSLUCENT(5)NAME
slapo-translucent - Translucent Proxy overlay
SYNOPSIS
/etc/openldap/slapd.conf
DESCRIPTION
The Translucent Proxy overlay can be used with a backend database such
as slapd-bdb(5) to create a "translucent proxy". Entries retrieved
from a remote LDAP server may have some or all attributes overridden,
or new attributes added, by entries in the local database before being
presented to the client.
A search operation is first populated with entries from the remote LDAP
server, the attributes of which are then overridden with any attributes
defined in the local database. Local overrides may be populated with
the add, modify , and modrdn operations, the use of which is restricted
to the root user.
A compare operation will perform a comparison with attributes defined
in the local database record (if any) before any comparison is made
with data in the remote database.
CONFIGURATION
The Translucent Proxy overlay uses a remote LDAP server which is con‐
figured with the options shown in slapd-ldap(5). These slapd.conf
options are specific to the Translucent Proxy overlay; they may appear
anywhere after the overlay directive and before any subsequent database
directive.
translucent_strict
By default, attempts to delete attributes in either the local or
remote databases will be silently ignored. The translu‐
cent_strict directive causes these modifications to fail with a
Constraint Violation.
translucent_no_glue
This configuration option disables the automatic creation of
"glue" records for an add or modrdn operation, such that all
parents of an entry added to the local database must be created
by hand. Glue records are always created for a modify operation.
CAVEATS
The Translucent Proxy overlay will disable schema checking in the local
database, so that an entry consisting of overlay attributes need not
adhere to the complete schema.
Because the translucent overlay does not perform any DN rewrites, the
local and remote database instances must have the same suffix. Other
configurations will probably fail with No Such Object and other errors.
FILES
/etc/openldap/slapd.conf
default slapd configuration file
SEE ALSOslapd.conf(5), slapd-ldap(5).
OpenLDAP 2.3.24 2006/05/30 SLAPO-TRANSLUCENT(5)