I don't have a Debian Squeeze server at present so I cannot check that. Where is this documented? I am having great trouble finding any clear description of how to actually access cn=config in the bootstrap case. Similarly I cannot find anything that clearly describes the use of SASL EXTERNAL with ldapi. If you can point me at some authoritative statements I will propose a patch for the Admin Guide.
Why? This is something Debian/Ubuntu chose to do for configuring the cn=config backend, not the OpenLDAP project. It should be something clearly documented by those projects. If you take the time to read the Ubuntu 10.04 LDAP guides, I know it is correctly documented there as it should be.
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