Kurt@OpenLDAP.org wrote:

At 11:48 AM 10/24/2006, ando@sys-net.it wrote:

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quanah@stanford.edu wrote:

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It would be nice if you could pass -u and -g options to run as another user/group so that on systems where OpenLDAP is running as another user or group, the files created by slapadd & slapindex have the correct ownerships (rather than root, for example).

OK for slapadd; for slapindex and other tools, what about using user/group info from the file(s) itself?

Why not just use su(1)? the only reason slapd(8) has -u/-g options is because it changes root after some initialization.

Agreed. As for using info from the files themselves - that requires per-backend functions to return the user/group info. Seems like unnecessary effort.