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Re: rootdn -> admindn?

Michael Ströder writes:
>On 2:00:38 am 2007-01-10 "Kurt D. Zeilenga" <Kurt@OpenLDAP.org> wrote:
>>At 11:50 AM 1/6/2007, Hallvard B Furuseth wrote:
>>> I've had it with explaining that the suffix is the root of the
>>> database which is not the rootdn which is not the Unix user "root".
>>> Any hope of renaming rootdn and rootpw to admindn and adminpw, with
>>> rootdn/pw as backwards-compatible and eventually undocumented
>>> aliases?
>>
>> Hack away...  if you want it in 2.4, it should be done SOON.
>
> IMO this renaming/aliasing will lead to even more confusion on the
> mailing lists. In this case I'd recommend to teach people rather than
> changing the config code.

But with the name "rootdn", the teaching goes on forever!  With a
change, the confusion may some day end.

-- 
Regards,
Hallvard