1 .TH SLAPO-TRANSLUCENT 5 "RELEASEDATE" "OpenLDAP LDVERSION"
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6 slapo-translucent \- Translucent Proxy overlay to slapd
10 The Translucent Proxy overlay can be used with a backend database such as
12 to create a "translucent proxy". Entries retrieved from a remote LDAP
13 server may have some or all attributes overridden, or new attributes
14 added, by entries in the local database before being presented to the
19 operation is first populated with entries from the remote LDAP server, the
20 attributes of which are then overridden with any attributes defined in the
21 local database. Local overrides may be populated with the
26 operations, the use of which is restricted to the root user.
30 operation will perform a comparison with attributes defined in the local
31 database record (if any) before any comparison is made with data in the
34 The Translucent Proxy overlay uses a remote LDAP server which is configured
35 with the options shown in
39 options are specific to the Translucent Proxy overlay; they must appear
42 directive that instantiates this overlay.
45 By default, attempts to delete attributes in either the local or remote
46 databases will be silently ignored. The
48 directive causes these modifications to fail with a Constraint Violation.
50 .B translucent_no_glue
51 This configuration option disables the automatic creation of "glue" records
56 operation, such that all parents of an entry added to the local database
57 must be created by hand. Glue records are always created for a
62 The Translucent Proxy overlay will disable schema checking in the local database,
63 so that an entry consisting of overlay attributes need not adhere to the
66 Because the translucent overlay does not perform any DN rewrites, the local
67 and remote database instances must have the same suffix. Other configurations
68 will probably fail with No Such Object and other errors.
72 default slapd configuration file