[Pkg-openldap-devel] Fwd: Multi-master setup in debian

[Listas de Correo]

Hi,

I've posted a question about n-way multimaster replication in Debian
(basically I wanted to know a procedure to do it) and got answers saying
the Debian package of OpenLDAP is not recommended at all (see the message
below). Would you mind to tell me if you agree with these statements? (I'd
prefer to use Debian packages when possible but don't want to use a broken
system).

Thanks in advance for your comments.

Regards,
Toshiro.

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From: Quanah Gibson-Mount <quanah at zimbra.com>
Date: Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 12:21 PM
Subject: Re: Multi-master setup in debian
To: Listas de Correo <toshiro.listas at gmail.com>
Cc: openldap-technical at openldap.org


--On Tuesday, September 17, 2013 11:27 AM -0300 Listas de Correo <
toshiro.listas at gmail.com> wrote:

 Well, that does not look so easy to me (that's why I'm asking for help :)
> ), specially considering that I already have a working LDAP working with
> several hundreds users relying on them to do their work, so it's not
> possible to me to start from scratch, I have to use what I already have
> (and not break anything in the process).
>
>
> For the reason above, I can't compile OpenLDAP myself (I have to use what
> is already there).
>

It is always interesting to me when someone emails the technical list,
asking for guidance from people who know the most about the software, and
then ignore it.  The Debian build of OpenLDAP is old, links to a
potentially insecure SSL implementation, and has a variety of known bugs
present in it that are known to affect replication, particularly
multi-master.  Understand that by continuing to use the Debian package, you
are essentially setting yourself up for failure when looking at using
Multi-Master Replication.


--Quanah


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Quanah Gibson-Mount
Lead Engineer
Zimbra Software, LLC
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