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Re: I can't delete a shell DB



Howard Chu wrote:
> From a philosophical standpoint - production configurations generally only
> grow.

IMO this general assumption is not valid.

> If you're mucking around and experimenting, you do that on a throw-away
> development system.

Well, one should always experiment on a dedicated test system. But the result
of the tests can be to delete things from the production system following a
well-defined procedure developed during testing.

> From a practical standpoint - behavior of the service when clients are making
> requests to a backend that gets removed is totally undefined.

LDAP clients do not care about (OpenLDAP) database backends at all.
They simply query a DIT.

AFAICS the original poster wanted to replace back-shell with back-sock for the
very same naming context. In theory this could be done with back-config - only
requring a very small downtime - entry deletion in back-config would be possible.

Ciao, Michael.


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