Re: ldapsearch limit of 500 entries

[Nick Milas <nick@eurobjects.com>]

On 14/12/2013 1:05 ÎÎ, Michael StrÃder wrote:

> AFAICT slapd.conf will at least be available in all OpenLDAP releases 2.4.x.
> Maybe even in 2.5 if I understood Howard correctly at LDAPcon 2013.
>
> There*are*  very good reasons to use slapd.conf - especially when beginning to
> develop your slapd configuration and you want to remove things and start over
> from scratch. We can see on this list that it's very hard for beginners to
> start with cn=config.
>
> Also I'm very much in favour of using slapd.conf with config management
> systems like puppet or similar and version control of config files.

+1

...esp. since cn=config still does not support important features admins 
need: deletions / comments (and probably more I can't remember right now).

We do use both config methods and -at least for us- the classic one is 
definitely much more admin-friendly!

Best regards,
Nick