chitrav@us.ibm.com wrote:

Full_Name: Chitra Vemkatramani Version: 2.3.27 OS: Redhat URL: ftp://ftp.openldap.org/incoming/ Submission from: (NULL) (162.83.178.28)

For a project that we are using openldap in, we would like to allow multiple users to start up ldap servers on the same machine. We would like an option on the slapd command line asking the server to pick any available port to bind to. We can then do netstat, find the port and pass that on to the client. Here is the patch we put in, to allow us to specify -1 for the port, so that the server will pick any available port. Can you please consider adding this to the server options ?

Hacking the server code to support your peculiar disorganization doesn't seem like a good idea. Just have your users agree on the port numbers they'll each use.