Re: managing OpenLDAP / back-config

Michael Ströder writes: > Hallvard B Furuseth wrote: >> Assertion controls in the generated LDIF, to check that the config entry >> being updated indeed matches the entry we read from cn=config and >> edited. > BTW: web2ldap implements delta-modification. The entry is re-read right > before the delta of the current entry and the user's input is generated. > This works quite well since years with several LDAP servers. If there > was a modification in between the delta modification still applies > correctly. Not sure if I should be writing this since I've hardly looked at web2ldap yet, but anyway... I don't quite get that. I'd think a correct delta would be generated by comparing with the entries as they looked when the user started editing. Minus any changes that have happened already.