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Re: back-config again

At 11:25 PM 4/3/2004, Hallvard B Furuseth wrote:
>Kurt D. Zeilenga writes:
>>At 11:21 PM 3/28/2004, Michael Ströder wrote:
>>>Kurt D. Zeilenga wrote:
>>>>Here are some thoughts on a possible bootstrapping scheme:
>>>>Also note the use of ldapi:// and -Y EXTERNAL for the
>>>>initial add.  The add would be allowed if the client's
>>>>uid was same as server's uid.
>>>
>>>And what would happen if one would like to build --without-cyrus-sasl?
>> 
>> Builtin EXTERNAL (coming soon I hope) or slapadd(8).
>
>So slapadd is not configured by the config backend?

I was noting that slapadd could be used to configure the config
backend (which then slapadd could make further use of).  That is,
slapadd(8) would be sufficient for bootstrapping (including
addition of databases).

Beyond bootstrapping, using slapadd (and slapcat) to configure
the system is limiting.  In particular, the slap tools do not
provide any entry modification or deletion or renaming capability.
But I'm not really thinking of using slap tools as a general
configuration mechanism.  The general mechanism, I think, should
be LDAP.

One could provide more slap tools (e.g., slapmodify) to fill the
gap...

But I'd actually like to go the other direction, make it
possible (and where possible, more effective) to use LDAP-based
mechanisms.  For instance, it should be possible to add indices
on the fly (and to regenerate indices on the fly).  But this is
a very long way off.

Kurt