LDAP-UX Client Services B.04.00 Administrator's Guide

User Tasks
To Change Passwords
Chapter 6170
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
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
Replica LDAP
Directory Server
Master LDAP
Directory Server
Updates
LDAP-UX
Clients 1-50
passwd(1) can not
modify replica
LDAP server
passwd(1) can
modify master
LDAP server
LDAP-UX
Clients 51-100