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Re: cn=anonymous

To: "Kurt D. Zeilenga" <Kurt@OpenLDAP.org>
Subject: Re: cn=anonymous
From: Hallvard B Furuseth <h.b.furuseth@usit.uio.no>
Date: Fri, 13 May 2005 13:20:01 +0200
Cc: openldap-devel@OpenLDAP.org
In-reply-to: <6.2.1.2.0.20050512231345.07f9db80@mail.openldap.org>
References: <6.2.1.2.0.20050512231345.07f9db80@mail.openldap.org>

Kurt D. Zeilenga writes:
> I'd like to replace "cn=anonymous" with "".  The
> empty DN is generally used to refer to anonymous
> in LDAP, seems best to continue that.   Testing
> shows no problems, but wonder if there are
> hidden dependencies in slapd(8) on "cn=anonymous"?

Where is it used?  Grepping for cn=anonymous found nothing.
One difference I can think of: Despite the name it looks like it
should match "access ... by users" in slapd.conf, while "" should
match "by anonymous".

-- 
Hallvard
Don't anthropomorphize computers. They hate that.

References:
- cn=anonymous
  - From: "Kurt D. Zeilenga" <Kurt@OpenLDAP.org>

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