Re: Advertising configcontext in Root-DSE

[Michael Ströder <michael@stroeder.com>]

Howard Chu wrote:
> revisiting this thread from February, providing a default authz-regexp
> mapping for Unix root to the cn=config rootDN when slapd is started with
> no config file and no config dir, and is listening on ldapi://.
> 
> That's a lot of extra work for no gain. Just run slapadd with your
> cn=config LDIF before starting slapd. Since the feature you propose only
> works for ldapi:// that means you already can only bootstrap from the
> local machine. If you're on the local machine anyway, slapadd is the
> better tool for the job.

But for those programming configuration tools speaking LDAP is the
better approach than generating LDIF and calling a command-line tool
afterwards.

Ciao, Michael.