On Mon, Jan 23, 2017 at 11:43:59PM +0000, quanah@openldap.org wrote:

Full_Name: Quanah Gibson-Mount Version: 2.4.44 OS: N/A URL: ftp://ftp.openldap.org/incoming/ Submission from: (NULL) (47.208.148.26)

Right now, it is impossible to configure the ldap* command line tools so that they function in major circumstances w/o also having a configuration file (I.e., ldap.conf, .ldaprc, etc). For example, the ability to use startTLS with LDAP requires such a file so that the CA file and/or cert path for the tool can be defined.

The "-o" option should be expanded to cover additional configuration parameters from the conf file, as has already been done with the network timeout parameter.

I have updated the documentation to extract the new options into ldap.conf(5) and reference it from each tool instead. The commits at https://github.com/mistotebe/openldap/tree/its8573-tables contain that change.