Full_Name: Tim Mooney Version: 2.4.25 OS: Linux, Solaris URL: ftp://ftp.openldap.org/incoming/TimMooney-110412-02.patch Submission from: (NULL) (2001:4930:106:0:18bb:1140:fa3d:f713)
As I mentioned here
http://www.openldap.org/lists/openldap-technical/201104/msg00088.html
the LDAP admin guide is very good, but I think that the intros to chapters 5 (configuring slapd via slapd-config) and chapter 6 (configuring slapd via slapd.conf) needed a bit of updating. Specifically
- it's not very explicit that slapd-config is now preferred and slapd.conf should only be used as a last resort. - the Note that some backends don't support slapd-config was vague enough that it would prevent many people from choosing that route, because they wouldn't know whether a backend they needed would support the new-style config system. By specifically listing which backends don't support slapd-config, hopefully more people will be willing to begin with (or convert to) slapd-config.
I also tried to
- make it clear that chapters 5 and 6 were essentially explaining the same thing, but the slapd-config way is preferred. - Although slapd-config stores its configuration in text files, they shouldn't be edited manually.
The patch against head has been uploaded. Any and all comments and feedback welcome.