David Timber wrote:
Quanah, I think I've pissed you off. I apologise. Well, if you don't see the problem, then that's fine. No need to get pissed off. You don't have to reply. That's fine. Just chill, man. It's not good for you. I read the whole admin guide and man pages. I'm not complaining just because out of ignorance. That kind of assumption is just a personal attack, not very nice of you(thf, I started it. Sorry). I'm making this point because I care about OpenLDAP and I want it to be better. I don't understand why we have to get emotional here.
I know how to import schemas with cn=config. That was never a question.
No. You've demonstrated that you don't understand at all.
I was just complaining because it's a tedious process and I believe that it shouldn't be like this.
It isn't. You've made more than one factual error describing its requirements.
The whole cn=config matter was not even my question in the first place. My concern was that I'm not happy with how cn=config handles schemas and I want to stick with "deprecated" slapd.conf. slaptest has to be used to convert schema to ldif, which is in no way intuitive and convenient.
On 5/4/22 12:27, Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote:
And you're literally missing the point that a ".schema" file is a syntax specific to slapd.conf and a ".ldif" file is a syntax specific to cn=config. Just as you cannot load a ".schema" file into cn=config, you cannot load a ".ldif" file into slapd.conf. The two things are *equivalent* representations for their respective configuration types. In the future, expect only ".ldif" files to get shipped once we finalize deprecating slapd.conf.
The format of schema is defined in RFC 4512. It's universal. OpenLDAP has no right to be difficult in incorporating schemas. Forcing users to convert it to ldif to just fit into the OpenLDAP specific cn=config format is not just fair, especially for the sake of compatibility. I'd have been happy if I could just use include: attribute to load .schema.
To anyone else, just forget everything I said. I just wanted to know when the slapd.conf support will be dropped. THAT was my question.
And, don't get me wrong. cn=config is a great idea!