On Thu, 2017-09-14 at 14:15 -0700, Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote:
--On Thursday, September 14, 2017 3:06 PM -0700 rammohan ganapavarapu rammohanganap@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
I am trying to see what is the best and recommended way of deploying/starting ldap, OLC or conf file based? i was in the impression that conf file based is easy and more controllable approach than OLC?
slapd.conf is deprecated, and support for it will be removed in a future release. It is recommended taht new deployments use cn=config. I would say "easy and more controllable" are not measurable, nor are they relevant. I find cn=config to be trivially easy, for example, and allows me to execute much better control over my deployments. YMMV.
If you don't find cn=config to be trivially easy, a tool like ldapvi ht tp://www.lichteblau.com/ldapvi/ makes config files irrelevant because the ldap tree can be edited like a file using any text editor you want.
It may even be convenient in some circumstances to move more configuration to ldap, but there is no service for that so that can be done with only a couple applications.