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Re: cn=anonymous



Kurt D. Zeilenga writes:
> I'd like to replace "cn=anonymous" with "".  The
> empty DN is generally used to refer to anonymous
> in LDAP, seems best to continue that.   Testing
> shows no problems, but wonder if there are
> hidden dependencies in slapd(8) on "cn=anonymous"?

Where is it used?  Grepping for cn=anonymous found nothing.
One difference I can think of: Despite the name it looks like it
should match "access ... by users" in slapd.conf, while "" should
match "by anonymous".

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Hallvard
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