Hi listers
i observed the following:
in openldap version 2.3.39 the following was acceptable: the access control statements for an ldap-database follow the definition of the database, i.e. in the slapd.conf file (and its includes) you could have the following sequence:
<general section> <database1 secion> <access-control section to database1> <database2 section> <access-control section to database2> ...
in openldap-version 2.4.8-3, however, the above sequence is no longer accepted, all access-controls must be in the general-section: the access-control, you get in this case, is the default one: "everyone authenticated can read everything", i.e. your access-controls are silently disregarded. you don't find a hint what's wrong with your access control, neither in the log nor on the error output. only after increasing the debug level to -d255 (-d15 is not sufficient), when starting slapd, you get "warning: ACL appears to be out of scope within backend naming context".
i would rather have liked to see an error "access control error ..." on the error output when starting slapd, and the start failing alltoghether.
suomi