Re: Running slapd as a non-root user. (ITS#519)

[nalin@redhat.com]

On Wed, May 03, 2000 at 01:46:59PM +0200, Kurt D. Zeilenga wrote:
> After review and discussion, we have decided not to commit the
> provided patch at this time.
> 
> We choose to categorize the patch as a feature enhancment.
> We have no plans for extending OpenLDAP 1.2.
> 
> Our OpenLDAP 2.0 development codes already contains such
> functionality, however with a different mechanism.  We prefer
> not to support two such mechanisms and believe the current devel
> approach is more than adequate.  This can be debated (again)
> on devel mailing list.

There's no need to debate; I agree.  We've been meaning to look at the
CVS tree to look at packaging issues; this just gives me a reason to do
it sooner.  I assume backporting that specific functionality is alright?

Nalin