Bug#411413: [Pkg-openldap-devel] Bug#411413: slapd: Permit the use of the new configuration scheme

[Quanah Gibson-Mount]

--On Sunday, February 18, 2007 2:50 PM -0800 Steve Langasek 
<vorlon at debian.org> wrote:

> On Sun, Feb 18, 2007 at 10:28:40PM +0100, Daniel 'NebuchadnezzaR'
> Dehennin wrote:
>> With slapd 2.3 there is a new configuration scheme entirely based on
>> LDAP. It permit to modify the configuration without restarting the
>> server.
>
>> I personnaly do the conversion of my slapd.conf file with
>> # slapd -f /etc/ldap/slapd.conf -F /etc/ldap/slapd.d
>
>> Then I modify the init script and add a "-F /etc/ldap/slapd.d" to the
>> SLAPD_OPTIONS.
>
> What exactly are you asking for with this bug report?  If you're asking
> for this to be enabled by default, then I don't think that's going to
> happen any time soon.

Given the very limited support for cn=config in 2.3, I think it'd be a bad 
idea.  Now with OpenLDAP 2.4, where its been fleshed out...

--Quanah

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Quanah Gibson-Mount
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Stanford University
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