Hallvard B Furuseth wrote:
Almost anything short of "rootdnThatAppliesOnlyToThisBackendAndNotToAnythingElseInYourOS" is going to require a bit of interpretation in the documentation, and it's intuitively obvious (if not always properly understood) that slapd configuration configures slapd, not *ix nor the universe at large.
That's far from obvious to a number of LDAP beginner who just wants to set up LDAP and get it to work. The learning curve is fairy steep, so many seem to skim the doc a bit too fast.
If they skim the docs too fast more aliases for config key-words won't help! That's an major mistake. One shouldn't try to work around this
I'm against more key-words which need more explaining. Note that there are lots of sample configs floating around. If you introduce aliases which key-words should they use? It causes more confusion than it helps.
Ciao, Michael.