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.TH SLAPO-TRANSLUCENT 5 "RELEASEDATE" "OpenLDAP LDVERSION"
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slapo-translucent \- Translucent Proxy overlay to slapd
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The Translucent Proxy overlay can be used with a backend database such as
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to create a "translucent proxy". Entries retrieved from a remote LDAP
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server may have some or all attributes overridden, or new attributes
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added, by entries in the local database before being presented to the
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operation is first populated with entries from the remote LDAP server, the
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attributes of which are then overridden with any attributes defined in the
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local database. Local overrides may be populated with the
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operations, the use of which is restricted to the root user.
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operation will perform a comparison with attributes defined in the local
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database record (if any) before any comparison is made with data in the
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The Translucent Proxy overlay uses a remote LDAP server which is configured
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with the options shown in
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options are specific to the Translucent Proxy overlay; they must appear
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By default, attempts to delete attributes in either the local or remote
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databases will be silently ignored. The
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directive causes these modifications to fail with a Constraint Violation.
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.B translucent_no_glue
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This configuration option disables the automatic creation of "glue" records
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operation, such that all parents of an entry added to the local database
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must be created by hand. Glue records are always created for a
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.B translucent_local <attr[,attr...]>
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Specify a list of attributes that should be searched for in the local database
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when used in a search filter. By default, search filters are only handled by
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the remote database. With this directive, search filters will be split into a
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local and remote portion, and local attributes will be searched locally.
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.B translucent_remote <attr[,attr...]>
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Specify a list of attributes that should be searched for in the remote database
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when used in a search filter. This directive complements the
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directive. Attributes may be specified as both local and remote if desired.
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are specified, the default behavior is to search the remote database with the
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complete search filter. If only
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is specified, searches will only be run on the local database. Likewise, if only
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is specified, searches will only be run on the remote database. In any case, both
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the local and remote entries corresponding to a search result will be merged
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before being returned to the client.
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The Translucent Proxy overlay will disable schema checking in the local database,
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so that an entry consisting of overlay attributes need not adhere to the
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Because the translucent overlay does not perform any DN rewrites, the local
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and remote database instances must have the same suffix. Other configurations
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will probably fail with No Such Object and other errors.
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default slapd configuration file