quanah@OpenLDAP.org wrote:

Full_Name: Quanah Gibson-Mount Version: 2.4 OS: NA URL: ftp://ftp.openldap.org/incoming/ Submission from: (NULL) (75.111.29.239)

The "overlay" directive in slapd.conf is listed under "general database options", but it can in fact be global, depending on the overlay. At least the wording in slapd.conf for this directive should be updated to reflect that.

The majority of overlays don't work as globals. Since those that do are the exception, it's probably better to just note these exceptions on the individual slapo- manpages.

A lot more would need to be reworked to really describe things accurately; there are in fact no global overlays at all. Just that some of them work when attached to the frontendDB database. And the frontendDB was created after overlays were first designed; the docs just haven't caught up to this fact yet.