27 Apr
2011
27 Apr
'11
5:55 a.m.
* Howard Chu hyc@symas.com [2011-04-20 21:38]:
The tree of files is not meant for you to ever look at or modify directly. Just use slapcat or ldapsearch. If you know anything about LDAP at all this is MUCH easier than editing flat text files, since you can use any LDAP tool (commandline or GUI) to do all the administration.
Plain text files are an established (in the *nix world, at least) and universal interface, and easily lend themselfs to configuration management systems, version control, as well as using the power of $EDITOR. So I sure hope existing support for slapd.conf won't be ripped out. Don't force a certain way to deal with configuration changes on everyone just because some use cases may ask for that. -peter