Re: managing OpenLDAP / back-config

Ralf Haferkamp wrote: > On Mittwoch, 16. Januar 2008, Michael Ströder wrote: >> Ralf Haferkamp wrote: >>>> For 1. I usually ask my customers how they are going to >>>> implement the change management. After some discussion we >>>> usually end up with text-based config managed with version >>>> control. Something simple and handy. :-) >>> >>> Yes, I guess that this works pretty well when you deploy OpenLDAP >>> (or basically any other software) at a single customer. It gets >>> harder when you ship OpenLDAP as a part of a product, >> >> I already imagined what your aim is. ;-) > > Of course my aim is somewhat focused on what I am getting paid for, > whose isn't? :) Yes, this was not meant as offense.

> But additionally to that I was trying to find out if > there is a general interest among the OpenLDAP Developers to have > some kind of management tools/api. I consider the LDAP C API to be inspired by what is sent/received over the wire. I'd expect such a higher-level management API to be inspired by certain management use-cases. So which use-cases do you have in mind?