Sorry for top post. What about returning the defaults only with manage dsa set like with dynlist?

-- Kind Regards, Gavin Henry. Managing Director. T +44 (0) 1224 279484 M +44 (0) 7930 323266 F +44 (0) 1224 824887 E ghenry(a)suretec.co.uk Open Source. Open Solutions(tm). http://www.suretecsystems.com/ Suretec Systems is a limited company registered in Scotland. Registered number: SC258005. Registered office: 24 Cormack Park, Rothienorman, Inverurie, Aberdeenshire, AB51 8GL. Subject to disclaimer at http://www.suretecgroup.com/disclaimer.html Do you know we have our own VoIP provider called SureVoIP? See http://www.surevoip.co.uk On 19 Aug 2012, at 21:14, Howard Chu <hyc(a)symas.com&gt; wrote: > openldap-commit2devel(a)OpenLDAP.org wrote: >> - Log ----------------------------------------------------------------- >> commit 842d1b5a17d19e17bcc420d972c310a416b2000b >> Author: Howard Chu <hyc(a)openldap.org&gt; >> Date: Sun Aug 19 12:49:02 2012 -0700 >> >> Added delete support >> >> ----------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> Summary of changes: >> servers/slapd/back-meta/config.c | 233 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++- >> servers/slapd/back-meta/init.c | 2 + >> 2 files changed, 228 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) > > This reminds me, we still don't have a clear policy on how cn=config should > present settings that have their default value. Personally I would prefer that > settings at their default value not be displayed. Unfortunately the semantics > get rather muddled. > > Deleting a value should always mean returning it to its default setting. In > the case of back-meta, per-target configuration can be initially inherited > from the base configuration. The question then is, when you've allowed a > target config to take the setting from the base, do you expect future changes > to the base to also change the targets? It's similar to the referential > integrity problem. My feeling is that it's not worth the trouble to maintain > such a thing. Which probably means we should always return all attributes and > values in cn=config all the time, so that all values are explicitly configured. > > Other opinions? > >> --- >> http://www.openldap.org/devel/gitweb.cgi?p=openldap.git >> >> > > > -- > -- Howard Chu > CTO, Symas Corp. http://www.symas.com > Director, Highland Sun http://highlandsun.com/hyc/ > Chief Architect, OpenLDAP http://www.openldap.org/project/ >