OpenLDAP 2.4.6

[Tony Earnshaw <tonni@hetnet.nl>]

I've built rpms for and and installed OL 2.4.6 on my Fedora FC6 
test/production machine. The rpms were built from a Mandriva cooker srpm 
built by Buchan Milne, with a slightly adapted spec file, which 
adaptations I've let Buchan know about.

Experience to date suggests that 2.4.6 is a drop in for the 2.3.39 that 
it was running, with the exception that a few of the spec file 
parameters had to be changed for FC6, but more importantly that a couple 
of the basic ACLs had to be changed: It seems that 2.4 is more picky 
about ACLs than 2.3.

It's running well for basic user authentication, smtp and IMAP and 
coping as well as 2.3.39 did. Now I've got it running, I'm looking at 
the Administrator's Guide for 2.4. This is a fantastic, hugely amended 
and augmented document in comparison to the 2.3 Admin Guide. I suppose 
it was Gavin Henry (http://www.suretecsystems.com/) who is responsible 
for it but can't be sure. Anyway, it's going to cost me a couple of days 
to go through it and see what more OL 2.4 can mean for my production 
systems than 2.3.

I trust than Buchan will provide an srpm for Red Hat/CentOS/Fedora 
people at http://staff.telkomsa.net/packages before long.

Best,

--Tonni

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Tony Earnshaw
Email: tonni at hetnet dot nl