Netscape DIRECTORY SERVER 6.01 - ADMINISTRATOR Administrator's Manual page 99

Each database link contains its own specific configuration information, which is
stored with the database link entry itself,
database,cn=plugins,cn=config
attributes, refer to the Netscape Directory Server Configuration, Command, and File
Reference.
This section contains the following procedures for configuring a database link from
the command line:
• Providing Suffix Information
• Providing Bind Credentials
• Providing an LDAP URL
• Providing a List of Failover Servers
• Summary of Cascading Chaining Configuration Attributes
• Database Link Configuration Example
Providing Suffix Information
Use the
nsslapd-suffix
link. For example, if you want your database link to point to the people
information for a remote site of your company, you would enter the following
suffix information:
nsslapd-suffix: l=Zanzibar,ou=people,dc=example,dc=com
The suffix information is stored in the
database,cn=plugins,cn=config
NOTE After creation time, any alterations you make to the
nsslapd-suffix
server containing the database link.
Providing Bind Credentials
For a request from a client application to be chained to a remote server, you can
provide special bind credentials for the client application. This gives the remote
server the proxied authorization rights needed to chain operations. If you do not
specify bind credentials, the database link binds to the remote server as
anonymous.
Providing bind credentials involves the following steps:
On the remote server, you need to do the following:
1.
database_link_name
cn=
. For more information about configuration
attribute to define the suffix managed by your database
database_link_name
cn=
entry.
attribute occur only after you have restarted the
Chapter 3
Creating and Maintaining Database Links
,cn=chaining
,cn=chaining
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