Re: About ldapi://

["Kurt D. Zeilenga" <Kurt@OpenLDAP.org>]

At 05:45 AM 2002-01-28, Pierangelo Masarati wrote:
>I was trying to configure ldapi:// by heart and, after a few failures,
>I looked at the code nad reviewed some old threads on the subject.
>I noted:
>
>1) paths must be URL encoded (e.g. /tmp/mysock => ldapi://%2Ftmp%2Fmysock)
>I'll note it somewhere
>2) there's no clean way to change the permissions on the socket
>(at least as far as I can tell).
>
>I understand a URL should be written in URL syntax, but since
>everything that follows the URL scheme is a file name we could 
>be a little forgiving.  
>
>We could try to use one of the extra fields (e.g. the "attrs")
>to set the permissions, e.g.  ldapi:///tmp/mysock?770

I would suggest using the extension field...


>Is the above correct?  Any comments/ideas on how to overcome (2)?
>
>Ando