Nick Milas wrote:
On 14/12/2013 1:05 μμ, Michael Ströder wrote:
> AFAICT slapd.conf will at least be available in all OpenLDAP releases 2.4.x.
> Maybe even in 2.5 if I understood Howard correctly at LDAPcon 2013.
>
> There*are* very good reasons to use slapd.conf - especially when beginning to
> develop your slapd configuration and you want to remove things and start over
> from scratch. We can see on this list that it's very hard for beginners to
> start with cn=config.
>
> Also I'm very much in favour of using slapd.conf with config management
> systems like puppet or similar and version control of config files.
+1
...esp. since cn=config still does not support important features admins
need: deletions / comments (and probably more I can't remember right now).
slapd.conf support will not be removed until after slapmodify/slapdelete are
released (i.e., after 2.5).
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