Full_Name: Ryan Steele Version: 2.4.15 OS: Ubuntu 8.04 LTD URL: ftp://ftp.openldap.org/incoming/ Submission from: (NULL) (207.106.239.81)

According to chapter 5 of the admin guide, "some of the backends and of the distributed overlays do not support runtime configuration yet. In those

cases,

the old style slapd.conf(5) file must be used." However, there is no documentation on which backends and overlays do and don't have said support. Without grokking the code, it is a trial-and-error operation at best.

Point taken. I'm pretty sure they all do now. Will check and update that section.

Also, there is no documentation on how to add overlay-specific directives

(man

pages or otherwise). Take, for example, autogroup-attrset; the olcAGattrSet directive is only described in autogroup.c, and nowhere else. This is not

the

only instance of missing module documentation, but it should give a general

idea

of where to look.

Some of the contribs one don't come with a man page unfortunately. Core ones do.

I'll look into the relevant sections and add one or two examples.

Of course, grepping the code is easy enough, but you shouldn't have to do

that

to learn how to achieve simple configurations. If there's going to be a fundamental paradigm shift from slapd.conf to cn=config, there has to be documentation (man pages, admin guide sections, et. al.) on the appropriate methods for achieving what once was done through slapd.conf. IMHO, that

should

include concrete examples, such as the following, pulled from the Courier documentation:

The following LDIF could be used to add [the auditlog] overlay to cn=config (adjust to suit):

dn: olcOverlay=auditlog,olcDatabase={1}hdb,cn=config 
changetype: add
objectClass: olcOverlayConfig
objectClass: olcAuditLogConfig
olcOverlay: auditlog
olcAuditlogFile: /tmp/auditlog.ldif

Well there are two places that talk about how to convert from slapd.conf to cn=config formats. In the guide and man pages, so that is the best way to do a full conversion and see the end result.

Where would you like to see these added?

Thanks for the feedback as always!

Gavin.