Re: Advertising configcontext in Root-DSE

["Michael StrÃder" <michael@stroeder.com>]

On 2:09:04 pm 2006-02-21 Ralf Haferkamp <rhafer@suse.de> wrote:
> On Friday 17 February 2006 18:48, Michael StrÃder wrote:
> >  Ralf Haferkamp wrote:
> > >  Btw, while we are at it. For easy bootstrapping of back-config we
> > >  could add an implicit sasl-regexp that maps
> > >  "gidNumber=0+uidNumber=0,cn=peercred,cn=external,cn=auth" to
> > >  "cn=config". This would allow root to configure slapd through
> > >  ldapi. I just played around a little with this and it seems to
> > >  work with some additional tweaks in bconfig.c.
> >
> >  See Howards response to my suggestion in this direction:
> >
> >  http://www.openldap.org/lists/openldap-devel/200507/msg00108.html
>
> Hm, the idea was to create that mapping only when there is no
> existing configuration (no slapd.conf and nothing in slapd.d). That
> means just for bootstrapping a new server. With this there would be
> no need to have an initial slapd.conf any more. It of course only
> make sense to add the mapping when slapd is really listening on ldapi.

You don't have to convince me... ;-)

This means: +1

Ciao, Michael.