Thank you Quanah for the response!
Makes sense.

One more question:
under: /opt/symas/etc/openldap/schema/README
It says that ppolicy is 
ppolicy.schema          Password Policy Schema (work in progress)

If i'm not mistaken, this would be the new ppolicy10 , yes?
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-behera-ldap-password-policy-10

Thanks!



On Wed, Aug 25, 2021 at 1:27 PM Quanah Gibson-Mount <quanah@symas.com> wrote:


--On Wednesday, August 25, 2021 2:17 PM -0400 Dave Macias
<davama@gmail.com> wrote:

> Without doing any configuration, I attempted to start the slapd 
> but /opt/symas/etc/openldap/slapd.conf did not exist, since it
> was /opt/symas/etc/openldap/slapd.conf.default . Which was an easy name
> change. After that the slapd service started without issues.
>
> My question is, why are the pkg files now under /opt? 

Two reasons:

a) It preserves the installation paths of the Symas OpenLDAP Gold product
b) Installation paths are identical regardless of host OS.  While RHEL8 has
dropped OpenLDAP server support, other OSes have not.  Additionally, RedHat
has not stopped shipping the 2.4 libldap, so we still need isolation at
that level.


Regards,
Quanah

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Quanah Gibson-Mount
Product Architect
Symas Corporation
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