Re: Deleting overlays from cn=config

[Francis Swasey <Frank.Swasey@uvm.edu>]

On 6/5/08 11:50 AM, Michael Ströder wrote:
> Howard Chu wrote:
> > Hallvard B Furuseth wrote:
> > > You also need to walk through the database and delete any attributes
> > > object classes defined by the overlay.  That'll be at least any
> > > operational attributes since they must be hardcoded into the C source.
> >
> > I wouldn't bother with that, since the schema definitions are still 
> > present. Those attributes would simply stop being updated/generated...
>
> Hmm, I'd consider this to be seriously flawed. It strikes me that there 
> might still exist operational attributes in some entries which are no 
> longer maintained by the DSA and there's no schema information available 
> anymore.
>
> Think of backup/restore situations where slapadd checks the schema...

How is that different from pre-cn=config setups where the administrator 
shut down slapd and removed the schema from the slapd.conf and restarted 
 slapd?

It's the same administrative responsibility to remove the use of the 
schema (and the attributes in the database) before removing the schema 
definition.

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