https://bugs.openldap.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9870

Issue ID: 9870 Summary: Remove optional overlay syntax Product: OpenLDAP Version: unspecified Hardware: All OS: All Status: UNCONFIRMED Keywords: needs_review Severity: normal Priority: --- Component: slapd Assignee: bugs@openldap.org Reporter: ondra@mistotebe.net Target Milestone: ---

While the module/overlay support was really young, an unreleased version of OpenLDAP supported 'optional overlays' that could fail start up without that being treated as a fatal error.

This was later disabled, never documented and nowadays it can't work anyway, but the configuration option is still there in config_overlay() honouring overlay names starting with the '-' character as an alias. A patch to remove that leftover is coming.