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NAME
       slapo-translucent - Translucent Proxy overlay

SYNOPSIS
       /etc/openldap/slapd.conf

DESCRIPTION
       The  Translucent  Proxy  overlay can be used with a backend database such as slapd-bdb(5) to create a
       "translucent proxy".  Entries retrieved from a remote LDAP server may have  some  or  all  attributes
       overridden,  or  new attributes added, by entries in the local database before being presented to the
       client.

       A search operation is first populated with entries from the remote LDAP  server,  the  attributes  of
       which  are  then overridden with any attributes defined in the local database. Local overrides may be
       populated with the add, modify , and modrdn operations, the use of which is restricted  to  the  root
       user.

       A  compare  operation  will perform a comparison with attributes defined in the local database record
       (if any) before any comparison is made with data in the remote database.

CONFIGURATION
       The Translucent Proxy overlay uses a remote LDAP server which is configured with the options shown in
       slapd-ldap(5).   These  slapd.conf  options  are  specific to the Translucent Proxy overlay; they may
       appear anywhere after the overlay directive and before any subsequent database directive.

       translucent_strict
              By default, attempts to delete attributes in either the local  or  remote  databases  will  be
              silently  ignored.  The translucent_strict directive causes these modifications to fail with a
              Constraint Violation.

       translucent_no_glue
              This configuration option disables the automatic creation of "glue" records for an add or mod-rdn modrdn
              rdn  operation,  such that all parents of an entry added to the local database must be created
              by hand. Glue records are always created for a modify operation.

CAVEATS
       The Translucent Proxy overlay will disable schema checking in the local database, so  that  an  entry
       consisting of overlay attributes need not adhere to the complete schema.

       Because  the  translucent  overlay  does  not perform any DN rewrites,  the local and remote database
       instances must have the same suffix.  Other configurations will probably fail with No Such Object and
       other errors.

FILES
       /etc/openldap/slapd.conf
              default slapd configuration file

SEE ALSO
       slapd.conf(5), slapd-ldap(5).



OpenLDAP 2.3.27                                  2006/08/19                             SLAPO-TRANSLUCENT(5)