Re: chaining question

[Tony Earnshaw <tonni@hetnet.nl>]

Howard Chu skrev, on 05-09-2007 13:22:

> > chase-referrals is specific to SLAPD-LDAP and isn't documented in 
> > SLAPO-CHAIN.
>
> slapo-chain(5):
>     Any valid directives for the ldap database may be used; see 
> slapd-ldap(5) for details.
>
> Why do we need to specifically document it further than that?

Ok, looked it up and read it (again?). I suppose I can imagine a reason 
for first setting it to false, then to true. Stamping on it to teach it 
who's the boss, as it were ...

> > I can only assume I'm one of the few people in the world who needs 
> > real-world chaining and has it - and subscribes to this ML.
>
> Most people need it, but most people who use LDAP (as opposed to X.500) 
> don't realize how they need it...

Thanks for the pointer :)

Best,

--Tonni

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Tony Earnshaw
Email: tonni at hetnet dot nl