btb@bitrate.net wrote:
On 2010.09.02 11.30, Michael Ströder wrote:
Howard Chu wrote:
cn=config is a slapd database and should be treated as such. The contents are not vanilla LDIF files, and database internals are always subject to change. It was designed to be used like other LDAP databases
- using ldap* tools when slapd is running, and using slap* tools when
slapd is offline.
While this is true for normal conditions couldn't there be situations where cn=config was tweaked in such a way that the server won't come up anymore? In this case tweaking the LDIF directly is an appropriate solution.
"and using slap* tools when slapd is offline."..., no?
Note that slap* actually use the config, here cn=config (see command-line option -F)...
Actually those situation are likely very rare if one is always tweaking cn=config via LDAP.
Ciao, Michael.