Thanks everyone for answering on the Groups question. I was so focused  People ou in the GUI I didn’t see the Group ou a few menu lines up. J I went into it and rediscovered that I knew how to create posixgroups two years ago. I created a new one succesfully and added users to it. On an LDAP-ified Linux host they can now newgrp to that group.

 

Now I have two more complicated questions.

 

  1. Group info does not multi-master replicate like user info does.

 

Specifically, I would like to manage posixgroups from any MultiMaster server. My new posix group is stuck on just the server I created it on.

 

  1. Config data does not multi-master replicate like user info does.

 

It would be nice to administer any server from any server. At the moment the only way I know how to do this is on installation. I don’t want to reinstall any DS at this point, though. My understanding is that mmr.pl sets up replication for only userRoot, not NetscapeRoot.

 

I went through the Admin GUI and under the Configuration tab, Replication->NetscapeRoot I checked “Enable Replica”, checked MultiMaster and set up the Current Supplier DN’s to cn=repman,cn=config just like userRoot.

 

Now it has a replica entry under Directory Tab->config->mapping tree just like dc=company,dc=com . However the attributes under o=NetscapeRoot do not have the nsslapd-backend and nsslapd-referral attributes. I’m guessing I need something like mmr.pl except for NetscapeRoot to fill in the blanks.

 

Is there a howto for this, or any tips?

 

Once again, thanks to the Fedora DS development team for a great product. Despite my noobish questions, it has saved me countless manhours and been very reliable.

 

 

Ken Marsh

ANS System Administration Lead

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