rein@OpenLDAP.org wrote:

Full_Name: Rein Tollevik Version: 2.4.16 OS: Irrelevant URL: Submission from: (NULL) (81.93.160.250) Submitted by: rein

The manual pages for (at least) ldapmodify, ldapmodrdn and ldapdelete do not mention the "-e control" option, nor is the private "-E" documented for ldapmodify.

A lot of the options accepted by the ldap* tools are common to them all. Should they be documented in a separate man page referred to by the tools manuals, or at least included from a common source?

I favor documenting everything in each man page, to limit the amount of redirection (when reading man pages, one wants to quickly find an answer to a specific problem, not learn everything about LDAP :). Documentation should be concise enough to minimally impact the amount one needs to read to learn how to *use* those controls. To learn about the purpose and the details of those controls, references should be used. My 2c.

p.