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Re: Have you seen this FUD - IT pros suffer OpenLDAP configuration headaches ?



Mike Jackson wrote:
> 
> Quoting Michael StrÃder <michael@stroeder.com>:
> 
>> When using slapadd to fully load cn=config you have to stop your slapd during
>> that. So this is definitely *not* how cn=config is supposed to be operated.
>> Also when mucking directly with the LDIF you loose slapd's capability of input
>> validation.
>
> Please read my post more carefully and understand it before commenting.
> 
> Slapd has never been started at this point so there's nothing to stop. It
> doesn't have any configuration at all. I don't muck with the LDIF, I generate
> it. If you take a little time to study the cn=config entries, you'll see that
> it's not exactly rocket science to write or generate your own.

Be assured that I did study cn=config schema in depth.

> The only real
> concern is that the attribute names or something change over time and I have
> to adapt my template, in other words it's not declared as a public interface
> but it really should be. You can even keep it in git (my template is certainly
> in git).

*You* clearly don't understand what the discussion is all about.
And you're arguing with contradictions.

Ciao, Michael.

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