Hi!
This is an old can of worms, Bobby.
Basically, Quanah & the OpenLDAP developers are not interested in supporting old versions, because it takes away from the time they have to work on the current version. We as users should support this, because the software will stop growing if the devs spend too much time on older versions.
I understand completely. I write software myself and only admin my network enough to support my software development. I have a small number of users but a large number of machines hence why I use ldaps.
I dont want to support years old releases of my own software. However, I dont radically change my config file formats either :)
I've followed this policy for the decade or so that I've been using OpenLDAP and been very successful. I am running a large infrastructure of Red Hat OL builds right now - dozens of replicas, with no problems whatsoever.
Thanks!! I'm going to tackle the conversion after I get this new system in place.
Bobby