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Re: cn=config example

To: Emmanuel Dreyfus <manu@netbsd.org>
Subject: Re: cn=config example
From: Aaron Richton <richton@nbcs.rutgers.edu>
Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2007 17:16:29 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com>, Derek Yarnell <derek@umiacs.umd.edu>, OpenLDAP Software List <openldap-software@openldap.org>, Gavin Henry <ghenry@openldap.org>
In-reply-to: <1i4rd94.1euowalrp5vi2M%manu@netbsd.org>
References: <1i4rd94.1euowalrp5vi2M%manu@netbsd.org>

And it's a sad that project leaders immediatly assume users are just
unwilling to read the docs, rather than wondering if the docs need
improvement.

I just discovered why my slapd -f slapd.conf -F slapd.d attempt failed:
permissions on the slapd.d directory were wrong, so slapd just start and
quits without a message, leaving an empty directory.

This is a concrete case of improvement: "slapd should not be silent on EACCES (or others)." I'd imagine that such a proposal would be met favorably in the ITS. Vague, overreaching statements about the perceived incomprehensibility of OpenLDAP documentation are what deserve questioning. There's a lot of doc work being done right now -- what would make it more usable?

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