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Upgrading from OpenDS to OpenDJ

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OpenDJ 2.4.0 was released a couple of months ago, and we’re seeing a lot of interest for it, especially from people who’ve already been evaluating OpenDS.

It is possible, and very easy, to upgrade from OpenDS 2.x to the latest version of OpenDJ. Here’s the easiest and more error-proof way.

First start by downloading the latest version of OpenDJ from ForgeRock web site. Currently the most recent release is OpenDJ 2.4.0, but nightly builds of coming OpenDJ 2.5.0 are also available. While you can run the upgrade through the Java web start installer, I recommend that you download the Zip package and run the upgrade from the command line.

Download and/or copy the OpenDJ zip package on the machine which has the instance to upgrade. Do not unzip it.

Go in the directory of the instance to upgrade:

cd /local/OpenDS2.2/

From that place, run the OpenDS 2.2 upgrade command :

./upgrade

The first question you’re asked is to confirm you plan to do an upgrade, so press the <Enter> key

The provide the full absolute path to the OpenDJ zip package, for example : /tmp/OpenDJ-2.4.0.zip

And then continue with the Upgrade program.

Should some customization of the schema or the configuration failing to be upgraded, the Upgrade program will stop and ask you what you want to do. You can review the details and decide to abort or continue the upgrade.

If you’re not sure about what to do, please consider continuing the upgrade. All files and customizations are preserved under the history directory and you can review them and decide if you want to try to reconfigure or not the upgraded server.

And do not forget to rebuild the dn2id index after the upgrade, as there’s been a change of format in this system index, to correct a defect and improve space efficiency.  To do so, stop the upgraded server and run the rebuild-index command :

bin/rebuild-index <some options> -i dn2id -b "<suffix>"

If you have a replicated environment, you can upgrade all the servers, one after the other, without interrupting the service nor changing anything in the replication configuration. The upgrade of a single server should take less than 5 minutes.

Prior to running an upgrade, we recommend you take a full backup of the server. A quick way to do this with small databases, is to stop the server and just fully copy it to another location. You can run the upgrade and then move back the copy in place if something didn’t run as expected.

Enjoy.

Update on Feb 27: Mention the need to rebuild the dn2id index. This was described in the 2.4.0 release notes, but was missing here.

Update on June 3: When upgrading to OpenDJ 2.4.2 or later, it is necessary to run a simple script against the OpenDS or OpenDJ instances before running the upgrade command. This script is patching a file used for the upgrade to detect schema changes. More details are available in the OpenDJ 2.4.2 Installation Guide.

Sun directory products documentation

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Last week-end all Sun products documentation got moved from docs.sun.com to Oracle.com domain, with new IDs. So all URLs and bookmarks have been “lost in translation” !

On this blog, I had numerous references to Sun directory product documentations, pointing to specific commands or chapters for configuring and managing the service… All are now redirecting to the main Oracle’s documentation page. 😦

But I managed to find the place where the Sun Directory Server documentation is listed, from iPlanet Directory Server 4.11 to the latest Oracle Directory Server Enterprise Edition 11g : the Legacy Sun Identity Management Documentation. There are link for both the online and the PDF versions.

Here, you will also find access to the OpenSSO enterprise 8.0 documentation as well as Sun OpenDS one.

Pfew! I was afraid everything disappeared.

On a side note, classifying the so called “strategic” Oracle Directory Server Enterprise Edition 11g in the legacy products seems to say a lot about its future !

OpenDS and Sun JVM 1.6.0_21

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Sun^H^H^HOracle released an update to the Java Platform Standard Edition last month : JDK 6 Update 21.

Last week, both on #opends IRC channel and the users mailing list, we started to get questions on how to enable replication between 2 instances of OpenDS, because dsreplication was producing the following error message : “There are no base DNs available to enable replication between the two servers”.

This was affecting the latest stable release of OpenDS (2.2.0) as well as the latest promoted-build and daily-builds.

After several exchanges and attempts to reproduce the problem, we found that the root cause was some changes in JDK 6 update 21, and more specifically in the parsing of the LDAP filters in JNDI. The new code has a stricter parsing and will mess with LDAP filters not surrounded by parentheses. ” cn=Foo” is according to RFC 4515 not a valid filter whereas “(cn=Foo)” is.

There was one occurrence of an invalid filter in OpenDS internals, exercised when enabling replication for the first time. We fixed the issue (#4575) yesterday and starting with today’s daily-build, you can use the latest version of the Java run-time with OpenDS.

We’re looking at providing an updated version of the 2.2 version to solve this issue as well as a few other important corrections. No ETA for this though.

Update:
OpenDJ, a fork of OpenDS, has a complete resolution for this issue. You can find more about OpenDJ on ForgeRock web site : http://forgerock.com/opendj.html

OpenDS 2.3.0-build003 is now available…

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Opends Logo TagWe have just uploaded OpenDS 2.3.0-build003, a new snapshot from the development branch of the OpenDS project, to the promoted-build repository.

OpenDS 2.3.0-build003 is built from revision 6502 of our source tree.

The direct link to download the core server is: http://www.opends.org/promoted-builds/2.3.0-build003/OpenDS-2.3.0-build003.zip

The direct link to download the DSML gateway is: http://www.opends.org/promoted-builds/2.3.0-build003/OpenDS-2.3.0-build003-DSML.war

We have also updated the archive that may be used to install OpenDS via Java Web Start. You may launch that using the URL http://www.opends.org/promoted-builds/2.3.0-build003/install/QuickSetup.jnlp, or visit https://www.opends.org/wiki/page/OverviewOfTheQuickSetupTool for more information.

Detailed information about this build is available at http://www.opends.org/promoted-builds/2.3.0-build003, including the detailed change log

Major changes since OpenDS 2.3.0 build002 include :

  • Provides support for the MS Permissive Modify control (#4238)
  • Adds support for multiple superior objectclasses in schema (#615)
  • Updated Berkeley DB Java Edition to version 4.0.103
  • Several enhancements and fixes in the External Changelog: Reliability in special cases like disabling replication domains, naming entries by ChangeNumber (Issue #4537), performance of searches with bounded filters (#4507), supporting operational attributes…
  • Resolves an issue (#4546) during shutdown that could cause deadlock in replication
  • Resolves an issue (#4554) on Windows with the Windows services
  • Some enhancements in the GUI look and feel and in 508 compliance
  • Resolves some issues (#4529, #3891, #3404, #3402) with specific replication conflict resolution
  • Improves the startup time of the server and detection of services tags
  • Resolves an issue (#4553) with the referential integrity plugin when several attributes are configured but only one is in a user entry
  • Fixes an issue (#4386) when adding an entry with duplicate values, resulting in a NPE
  • Fixes an issue (#4468) with the way values in filters and indexes are normalized
  • Resolves some performance issue (#4384) in replication monitoring
  • Improves reliability of replication initialization protocol (Issues #3395 #3998)
  • Resolves several issues (#3966, #4406, #4536 with clients tools and control panel when the server disconnect on error
  • Fixes some issues with MakeLDIF utility
  • Resolves a few issues (#4520) within Import
  • Improves the SSHA password storage scheme to be compatible with hashes from other servers (#4558)
  • Resolves an issue (#4232) with Windows specific LDIF files during Import
  • Adds an option to log replications CSNs in the Access Logs, like Sun Directory Server does
  • Resolves an issue (#4556) with the Password Modify extended operation when some validation must be skipped for administrators
  • Resolves an issue (#2748)with the order of message logged in the access logs
  • Resolves an issue where password policies subentries are not applied after replicated

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OpenDS 2.3.0-build002 is now available…

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Opends Logo TagWe have just uploaded OpenDS 2.3.0-build002, a new snapshot from the development branch of the OpenDS project, to the promoted-build repository.

OpenDS 2.3.0-build002 is built from revision 6400 of our source tree.

The direct link to download the core server is: http://www.opends.org/promoted-builds/2.3.0-build002/OpenDS-2.3.0-build002.zip

The direct link to download the DSML gateway is: http://www.opends.org/promoted-builds/2.3.0-build002/OpenDS-2.3.0-build002-DSML.war

We have also updated the archive that may be used to install OpenDS via Java Web Start. You may launch that using the URL http://www.opends.org/promoted-builds/2.3.0-build002/install/QuickSetup.jnlp, or visit https://www.opends.org/wiki/page/OverviewOfTheQuickSetupTool for more information.

Detailed information about this build is available at http://www.opends.org/promoted-builds/2.3.0-build002, including the detailed change log

Major changes since OpenDS 2.3.0 build001 include :

  • Multiple improvements on the Control Panel and the Setup
  • Multiple incremental improvements with the External Changelog, including reliability and performance (Issue #4478)
  • Upgraded the version of the Berkeley DB Java Edition to 4.0.95
  • Final fix for issue #4367, removing the need for BDB logging configuration via properties
  • Fixes some memory leaks with lots of connects and disconnects (Issue #4491)
  • Resolves a NPE when using Extensible Matching filters without matching rule OID (Issue #4385)
  • Fixes an issue (#4539) with the DSML gateway with JAXB and some Application Servers
  • Fixes an issue (#4492) in ACI where an NPE would occur when the base entry contains a single RDN component
  • Improves the reliability of the OpenDS Windows Services (Issues #4084 and #4381)
  • Resolves issue #4523 where ACI and sub-entry caches were not updated on replicas
  • Resolves issue #4538 where Virtual attributes would not be retrieved when the entry cache is configured
  • Fixes an issue with access controls that would give different results for cn=Directory Manager and plain user (Issue #4547)
  • Enhances the support and compliance of LDAP subentry, Collective attributes and Password Policy
  • Resolves several issues with Replication including Issues #4514, #4533 and #4534, and enhance the way Replication servers are electing servers they connect to (Issue #4343)
  • Renamed the extensions directory to “experimental”. The only experimental extension is the ArisID privacy control
  • Fixes several issues related to building OpenDS, especially on Windows.

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Subversion authorization through LDAP with OpenDS

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If you building a centralized development environment for a team or large group of users, the question of centralizing user identities, authentication and authorization is always popping up and the answer is often to use an LDAP directory server. The developer section of the OpenDS documentation wiki has a set of tutorials for using the OpenDS LDAP directory server with various web servers and open source project like GlassFish, Apache Tomcat, SugarCRM… But not yet for Subversion. Thankfully, Wooter van Reeven, Senior Consultant at Yenlo has just published a long and detailed tutorial for setting up Subversion authentication and authorization through LDAP, with OpenDS and Apache2.

Update on March 18th.

Wooter has also posted a copy of the article on OpenDS documentation wiki.

I’ve also been aware of an older article on the subject of Subversion with Apache and LDAP by Jeremy Whitlock, engineer in the CollabNet Subversion team. This article contains more details on the Apache configuration parameters and snippets for both Apache 2.0 and Apache 2.2.

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OpenDS Tab Sweep

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It’s been a while since I last posted an OpenDS tab sweep. So here’s a list of news and pointers related to our open source LDAP directory server.

PCQuest Top Story this month is about the Top 10 Enterprise Open Source Apps, which include OpenDS and an article on Managing Identities with OpenDS.

The OpenDS project is starting to demonstrate its maturity. Several startups and software companies are now officially supporting OpenDS.

IconcurldapintegrationiConcur Software delivers new Axiom a Requirements management tool integrates by default with OpenDS.

Bonitasoft, the leader in open source Business Process Management (BPM) and a Grenoble based company, uses OpenDS for testing its support of LDAP repositories and praises it to its own customers, for its ease of use. Ask @rodrigue !

Symeos, another high profile French startup is building its Symeos Appliance Framework on open source projects including GlassFish, OpenSSO and OpenDS.

Janua, a French IT services company specialized in identity projects has included OpenDS in its product offering and has just launched a new site for its LDAPTools.

Sopera, a german company building open source SOA is integrating OpenDS in its development tools and offering, as shown on the screenshot below (courtesy of SpringSource)

SOPERA ASF ToolSuite partial screenshot

Also in the recent days a couple of new LDAP browsers appeared.

Finally, in a introductory article titled Microsoft Azure for the Dummies, Ernest regrets the lack of flexibility in the PaaS plans from Microsoft and suggest that Java based OpenDS directory Server as a good alternative for running your own LDAP service on MS infrastructure.

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OpenDS 2.3.0-build001 is now available…

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In December, the team had released OpenDS 2.2.0, a stable release of the LDAP directory server written for the Java platform. While the quality assurance team was testing and making sure the level of quality and reliability was there, the developers continued to add features on the trunk.

So today, I’m happy to announce the promotion of OpenDS 2.3.0-build001, the first development build on the path to OpenDS 2.4, a stable release currently planned for Summer 2010.

OpenDS 2.3.0-build001 is built from revision 6353 of our source tree and contains 2 major features :

  • The import code has been refined to improve performances, especially with very large data set. Tests have been run with 1,000,000,000 entries and the file imported in about 40 hours.
  • This version of OpenDS provides support for Subentries in LDAP [RFC 3672] and Collective Attributes for LDAP [RFC 3671]. In addition to the support of the Collective attribute standard, OpenDS supports a more user friendly notation, allowing to make use of Collective attribute definitions with standard attributes. More on this subject in a future article, although if you want to understand how to use it, Anton already wrote a description on the OpenDS Wiki.

These 2 features are just started to be seriously tested by the OpenDS team, so they cannot be considered as fully stable yet. There are already some issues being investigated, with the rebuild-index and verify-index commands. If you do find an issue with this OpenDS build, please report it in Issue Tracker.

The direct link to download the core server is: http://www.opends.org/promoted-builds/2.3.0-build001/OpenDS-2.3.0-build001.zip

The direct link to download the DSML gateway is: http://www.opends.org/promoted-builds/2.3.0-build001/OpenDS-2.3.0-build001-DSML.war

We have also updated the archive that may be used to install OpenDS via Java Web Start. You may launch that using the URL http://www.opends.org/promoted-builds/2.3.0-build001/install/QuickSetup.jnlp, or visit https://www.opends.org/wiki/page/OverviewOfTheQuickSetupTool for more information.

Detailed information about this build is available at http://www.opends.org/promoted-builds/2.3.0-build001, including the detailed change log

Major changes since OpenDS 2.2.0 include :

  • Multiple improvements on the Control Panel and the Setup including display of equivalent command-line commands, cosmetic aspects, messages, referral handling…
  • Multiple incremental improvements with the External Changelog, including reliability and performance
  • Revision 6190 – Upgraded the version of the Berkeley DB Java Edition to 4.0.73
  • Revision 6192 (Issue #4360) – Improves responsiveness of the OpenDS server when hammered with large searches and slow clients
  • Revisions 6198, 6209 (Issue #4371) – Solves an issue with PKCS12 certificates that do not have alias
  • Revision 6208 (Issue #4373) – Improves time to start the replication service
  • Revision 6292 (Issue #3601) – Adds the ability to update or delete schema attribute types and object classes definitions in the Control Panel
  • Revision 6332 (Issue #4472) – Fixes the way a Workflow element is checked to be a parent of another Workflow element
  • Revision 6334 (Issue #4464) – Solves an issue where reading the RootDSE could take too long when External Changelog is enabled
  • Revision 6336 (Issue #4477) – Increases the maximum size of DB log files from 10MB to 100MB
  • Revision 6351 – Support for localization in Catalan (ES_CA)
  • Revision 6353 (Issue #4489) – Resolve an issue where Java would not be detected even though JAVA_HOME variable was set

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OpenDS helps load testing in the cloud.

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In the CloudJason Shao explains on his blog how they do loadtesting of their web-based portal application on Amazon EC2.

What raised my interest was that they’ve added the OpenDS ldap directory server in the image, as it was faster and easier than dealing with their usual infrastructure.

This is not the first time we see customers deploying OpenDS in the cloud. As a matter of fact, I think the first in production deployment of OpenDS was on network.com. More recently, Arnaud posted an article and performance numbers on running OpenDS on Amazon EC2.

If you are building services on the cloud and need authentication, authorization or storing profiles for your users, OpenDS provides a standard based solution (LDAP) that is very easy and fast to deploy. Give it a try !

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OpenDS 2.2 has been released !

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Opends Logo TagThe OpenDS development team is very happy to announce the immediate availability of OpenDS 2.2.0.

The Sun team is also announcing the release of Sun OpenDS Standard Edition 2.2, a commercial offering based on OpenDS 2.2.0.

OpenDS is an LDAPv3 compliant directory service written entirely in Java. With less than 5 months since the availability of OpenDS 2.0, the new release brings several new features and enhancements :

  • New scalable Import and Indexing feature allows to import 10 M entries in less than a half hour
  • External Changelog is activated with Replication to search and retrieve data updates
  • Fractional Replication, to specify which attributes to include or exclude in replication
  • Extensible matching rules for date and time based attributes to define time based access control rules
  • Support for custom syntaxes based on substitutions, regular expressions or enumerations
  • Remote server management in the Control Panel
  • Improved replication management and grouping, tested with up to 8 masters
  • Recurrent Tasks in the Control Panel to automate backups
  • Dsconfig script friendly mode

OpenDS 2.2.0 is the promotion of OpenDS 2.2.0-RC4, built with revision 6181 of the b2.2 branch, to stable status.

You can download it as a Zip file or install it now with the Java WebStart Installer.

As with previous stable releases, we’ve taken a snapshot of the documentation wiki. Links are still being verified and some screenshots might be updated in the coming days, but the content is complete.

You can find more information about OpenDS 2.2 in the release notes. And if you’re considering deploying in production and you’re looking for support options, please check Sun OpenDS Standard Edition 2.2, built on the same code.

I’d like to thank all the members of the community who have helped us to make OpenDS 2.2 a better release, and especially those who helped with translations : Marek Roszkowski and Bartłomiej Pelc for the Polish translation, Christian Brennsteiner for the German one, and all those who have created issues in the Issue Tracker : crstop, robdale, ajangity, swtet2003, soonleong, stroeder, ogr. My thanks are also going to the chatters on the IRC channel that are providing enormous feedback.

New features and enhancements have already been committed on the trunk and are available for test in daily builds. Please check the OpenDS roadmap for more details on coming features, and possible contribute to it.

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Securing JBoss JMX console with OpenDS

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Steve Millidge, founder of C2B2, has just published a nice and illustrated step by step tutorial for securing JBoss JMX console with LDAP and more specifically the OpenDS directory server. Similar steps could be used to secure all the different subsystems in JBoss, as illustrated in this already 2 years old tutorial about JBoss Portal, OpenSSO and OpenDS.

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OpenDS 2.2.0 Release Candidate 4 is now available

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Opends Logo TagLast week, the OpenDS 2.2.0 Release Candidate 4 has been made available on our website. This new release candidate was mostly done to accommodate with some late changes to messages being localized, and give more time for testing to OpenDS 2.2 and the Sun branded product based on it.

OpenDS 2.2.0-RC4 is built from revision 6147 of the b2.2 branch of the source tree.

The direct link to download the core server is: http://www.opends.org/promoted-builds/2.2.0-RC4/OpenDS-2.2.0-RC4.zip

The direct link to download the DSML gateway is: http://www.opends.org/promoted-builds/2.2.0-RC4/OpenDS-2.2.0-RC4-DSML.war

We have also updated the archive that may be used to install OpenDS via Java Web Start. You may launch that using the URL http://www.opends.org/promoted-builds/2.2.0-RC4/install/QuickSetup.jnlp, or visit https://www.opends.org/wiki/page/OverviewOfTheQuickSetupTool for more information.

Detailed information about this build is available at http://www.opends.org/promoted-builds/2.2.0-RC4, including the detailed change log

Major changes incorporated since OpenDS 2.2.0-RC3 include:

  • Revision 6150 (Issue #4355) – Fixes a caching issue with the Control Panel when aborting a search
  • Revisions 6156, 6160, 6172 (Issue #4358, #4329, #4340) – Resolve several issues with the External Change Log at initialization or shutdown
  • Revision 6181 (Issue #4325) – Resolves an issue with values of Enumeration Syntax not being case insensitive in Add or Modify operations

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OpenDS 2.2.0 Release Candidate 3 is now available

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Opends Logo TagThe OpenDS development team is very pleased to announce the immediate availability of OpenDS 2.2.0-RC3.

OpenDS 2.2 offers the following new features from OpenDS 2.0 :

  • Scalable import and indexing
  • External changelog compliant with the Internet-Draft "Definition of an Object Class to Hold LDAP Change Records", draft-good-ldap-changelog-04.txt
  • Fractional replication
  • Extensible matching rules for time base attributes
  • Support for custom syntaxes based on substitution, regular expressions or enumeration
  • Remote server management in control panel
  • Recurrent tasks in control Panel
  • Default automatic Backup in the control panel
  • Separation of LDAP Servers and Replication Servers for replication
  • Ability to merge disjoint replication topologies
  • Dsconfig script friendly mode

The purpose of the Release Candidate is to solicit one last round of testing before the final release. So please test the OpenDS release with your client applications, in your environment or on your favorite platform.

If you do find a bug, please report it with Issue Tracker.

We welcome feedback. Please report you experience with OpenDS on our mailing lists, or on #opends IRC channel on Freenode.

OpenDS 2.2.0-RC3 is built from revision 6147 of the b2.2 branch of the source tree.

The direct link to download the core server is: http://www.opends.org/promoted-builds/2.2.0-RC3/OpenDS-2.2.0-RC3.zip

The direct link to download the DSML gateway is: http://www.opends.org/promoted-builds/2.2.0-RC3/OpenDS-2.2.0-RC3-DSML.war

We have also updated the archive that may be used to install OpenDS via Java Web Start. You may launch that using the URL http://www.opends.org/promoted-builds/2.2.0-RC3/install/QuickSetup.jnlp, or visit https://www.opends.org/wiki/page/OverviewOfTheQuickSetupTool for more information.

Detailed information about this build is available at http://www.opends.org/promoted-builds/2.2.0-RC3, including the detailed change log

Major changes incorporated since OpenDS 2.2.0-RC2 include:

  • Revision 6100 (Issue #4337) – Resolves an issue in which importing large LDIF files would consume a lot of disk space
  • Revision 6102 (Issue #4298) – Fixes a problem with Replication changelog that could grow out of bound
  • Revisions 6108, 6123 (Issue #4283) – Resolves an issue in the Control Panel when adding operational attributes to an entry
  • Revision 6109 (Issue #4292) – Changes the Control Panel to abandon the systematic use of the ManageDSAIT Control
  • Revision 6111 (Issue #4264) – Fixes an issue in the Control Panel when doing multiple modifications on a single entry
  • Revision 6113 (Issue #4302) – Fixes unexpected errors in the Control Panel Manage Entries screen with concurrent searches
  • Revision 6117 (Issue #4322) – Provides a way in the Control Panel to rebuild all indexes
  • Revision 6118 (Issue #4328) – Resolves an issue where the Control Panel would freeze on Ubuntu
  • Revision 6119 (Issue #4332) – Resolves an issue on Windows with installation path names containing spaces
  • Revision 6120 (Issue #4269) – Fixes a problem with the External Changelog changenumber not being reset when the database was re-initialized
  • Revision 6122 (Issue #4296) – Publishes External Changelog base DN in the root DSE entry
  • Revision 6126 (Issue #4350) – Changes the way replication domain names are created with the dsreplication utility
  • Revision 6129, 6147 (Issue #4336) – Changes the Control Panel to provide the ability to refresh the suffix and entries in the Manage Entries window
  • Revision 6131 (Issue #4335) – Fixes the way scrolling works in the Control Panel
  • Revision 6134 (Issue 4293) – Resolves issues when verifying newly created indexes
  • Revision 6138 (Issue 4338) – Changes the default Global Access Controls to provide better secure by default permissions for users to update their own entry

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OpenDS in Polish

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PolandflagPavel Heimlich just announced today, on the project users mailing list that the OpenDS project is now (partly) localized in Polish. Translation of the messages for the command line tools has been contributed by 2 members of the Polish OpenDS Community : Bartłomiej Pelc and Marek Roszkowski. Many thanks from the development team to both of you.

This is the 6th localization of OpenDS that is shipping. Other languages are still work in progress : Italian, Serb, Portuguese, Korean… If you want to contribute, it’s easy: Join the project as a Contributor, and create your account of the Community Translation Interface. The project is currently named OpenDS 2.3easy (it’s a subset of the whole OpenDS messages, leaving out the server error messages).

The Polish translation files are available in the latest daily build. If you want to turn of Polish localization or try some other language, check the tip for enabling / disabling specific language. If you find any problem with the translations, please let us know. You can either file an issue in the Issue Tracker, or send an email on the localization and internationalization mailing list : g11n (at) opends.dev.java.net.

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OpenDS Silent install

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Opends Logo TagOne of the things we’re the most proud of in the OpenDS project is the simplicity of installation and initial configuration, thanks to the Java Web Start QuickSetup installer. We say that you can download, install and configure OpenDS to run on your machine in less than 3 minutes and 6 clicks.

But OpenDS can also be downloaded as a Zip and installed with the setup program, which can be either graphical or in command line and even used in silent mode.

The OpenDS community is often full of resources and Lucas Rockwell pointed out to his script for downloading and installing OpenDS automatically. I’ve taken the liberty to improve his idea and show it here :

#!/bin/sh

# This is the OpenDS version number to install

if [ -z “$1” ]
then
VER=2.2.0
else
VER=$1
fi

# Download with curl or wget, uncomment the preferred download method
curl -O http://www.opends.org/promoted-builds/${VER}/OpenDS-${VER}.zip
# wget -nd http://www.opends.org/promoted-builds/${VER}/OpenDS-${VER}.zip

unzip OpenDS-${VER}.zip

cd OpenDS-${VER}/

# Some possible option change :
# Replace -d 20 (generate sample data with 20 entries) with -a (create
# top entry) or -l <ldifFile> (load data from the LDIF file)
# Change -w “secret12” with -j /tmp/me/passwordfile to avoid hardcoded
# cleartext password
# Add -O to avoid starting the server after install
# Add -Q for a quiet install
# ./setup –help for more information on options

./setup –cli -n -b “dc=example,dc=com” -d 20 -p 1389 \
–adminConnectorPort 4444 -D “cn=Directory Manager” \
-w “secret12” -q -Z 1636 –generateSelfSignedCertificate

As you can see, it’s really trivial and it does the work from a few seconds to a few minutes depending on the speed of your internet connection.

The script can be downloaded here.

Have fun !

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