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# How-to
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# How-to
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## Know when will my change take effect?
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Once a change is saved to LDAP, the actual change will take at least 5
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minutes and at most 15 minutes to propagate to the relevant host. See
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the [configuration file distribution
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section](#configuration-file-distribution) for more details on why it
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is so.
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## Locking an account
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## Locking an account
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See [the user retirement procedures](retire-a-user).
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See [the user retirement procedures](retire-a-user).
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### Configuration file distribution
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### Configuration file distribution
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An important part of `ud-ldap` is the `ud-generate` command, which
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An important part of `ud-ldap` is the `ud-generate` command, which
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generates configuration files for each host. Then the `ud-replicate`
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generates configuration files for each host. Then the `ud-replicate`
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command runs on each node to `rsync` those files. Both commands are
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command runs on each node to `rsync` those files. Both commands are
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ran from cron on regular intervals, the latter defined in Puppet, the
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ran from cron on regular intervals. `ud-replicate` is configured by
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former hard-coded to 15 minutes.
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the `userdir-ldap` package, at every 5 mintues. `ud-generate` is also
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configured to run every 5 minutes, starting on the third minute of
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every hour, in `/etc/cron.d/local-ud-generate` (so at minute 3, 8, 13,
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..., 53, 58).
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More specifically, this is what happens:
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More specifically, this is what happens:
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