Re: (ITS#5823) clients/tools don't honor ldap.conf defaults

[ando@sys-net.it]

h.b.furuseth@usit.uio.no wrote:
> Pierangelo Masarati writes:
>> -ZZ should be deprecated, and -Z should simply and strictly require 
>> StartTLS.
> 
> Good point.   Except then people who are used to new clients will
> make insecure connections when using old clients.  Maybe -Z should
> be an error instead...

Mine was a generic criticism, not a suggestion for this specific case.

> What I'd really really like to do is throw away all the options,
> rename the programs, and start over.  This time with the same option
> names in ldap tools, slap tools, and slapd itself.  Goes with the
> someday-in-the-future library rewrite, I suppose.

:)  p.


Ing. Pierangelo Masarati
OpenLDAP Core Team

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