Re: Advertising configcontext in Root-DSE

[Ralf Haferkamp <rhafer@suse.de>]

On Thursday 16 February 2006 16:41, Pierangelo Masarati wrote:
> > Ralf Haferkamp wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I just recognized that current slapd advertises the config-context
> >> in root-dse, even if back-config is not used (e.g. no config
> >> directory exists). To me it seems useful to hide the
> >> "configContext" Attribute in such cases and deny searches below
> >> cn=config with "no such object".
> >
> > No. The cn=config tree is always present; just that any changes
> > made when no backing directory exists will not persist.
>
> but if no "database config" directive is present, it's not
> accessible.  I think this is what Ralf meant.
Yes. It's just confusing that you see "configContext" in the Root-DSE 
but can't access it in any way.

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	Ralf

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