User Tasks
To Change Passwords
directory on sys001. However, the passwd(1) command on clients 51-100 will fail because the replica server on sys002 cannot be modified. See the diagram below.
Figure 6-1 | Cannot Change Passwords on Replica Servers |
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passwd(1) can | | | | | | | | passwd(1) can not |
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modify master | | | | | | | | modify replica |
LDAP server | | | | | | | | LDAP server |
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| | LDAP-UX | | | | | | LDAP-UX | | | |
| | Clients 1-50 | | | | | | | Clients 51-100 | | | |
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One way to allow clients 51-100 to change their passwords is to create a new passwd(1) command wrapper on these clients that calls ldappasswd(1), which modifies the master directory. When the replica server is updated depends on how you have configured the replication. All other LDAP requests continue to go to the replica server through
