Re: (ITS#4719) Support for running slapadd/slapindex as a user

[quanah@stanford.edu]

--On Tuesday, October 24, 2006 8:49 PM +0200 Pierangelo Masarati 
<ando@sys-net.it> wrote:

> quanah@stanford.edu wrote:
>> It would be nice if you could pass -u and -g options to run as another
>> user/group so that on systems where OpenLDAP is running as another user
>> or group, the files created by slapadd & slapindex have the correct
>> ownerships (rather than root, for example).
>>
> OK for slapadd; for slapindex and other tools, what about using
> user/group info from the file(s) itself?

What file(s)?  Assuming this is a new (and only) index?  I guess the __db.* 
files? or the id2entry file?  Just trying to see specifically where you are 
going on this. :)

--Quanah


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