Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote:
--On Sunday, July 21, 2019 2:51 AM +0100 Howard Chu hyc@symas.com wrote:
The behavior is supposed to be exactly as specified in the manpages.
There is no reason to expect back-ldap and syncrepl to be exactly alike; they perform different functions.
You missed the point. It wasn't about syncrepl vs back-ldap, it was about whether or not *anything* used in slapd should ever pull in data from ldap.conf. The *only* thing I can find that pulls in anything from ldap.conf (per the man pages) is syncrepl. Which seems rather odd, particularly since it's only for one specific value. Especially given that ldap.conf(5) specifies it is only for ldap clients.
A syncrepl consumer is an LDAP client. A back-ldap backend is an LDAP client.