Question RE: User-only config directives

[Sean Myers <smyers@americanri.com>]

I've been doing some searching on this to no avail, so I have a question
regarding these two posts:

http://www.openldap.org/lists/openldap-software/200603/msg00037.html
http://www.openldap.org/lists/openldap-software/200603/msg00039.html

As an administrator, I have difficulty understanding why I am unable to
be as specific as possible in ldap.conf in defining how my clients are
to access my directory. In the second link above, I can understand the
reasoning behind generally having SASL_MECH be user-only, but in my case
I would appreciate the ability to throw some sort of overriding
directive in ldap.conf to allow the user-only options in ldap.conf. 

While I could just as easily modify libraries/libldap/init.c to suit my
needs or otherwise work around this, I was thinking that this might be
of some use to other LDAP admins.

-- 
Sean Myers
American Research Institute