Re: use ldif backup with operational attributes in conjunction with slapadd?

[Quanah Gibson-Mount <quanah@zimbra.com>]

--On Friday, May 31, 2013 12:56 AM +0200 Hallvard Breien Furuseth 
<h.b.furuseth@usit.uio.no> wrote:

> On 2013-05-30 20:08, Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote:
> > <meike.stone@googlemail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > I want to preserve the operational attributes from the ldapsearch
> > > ldif
> > > (created with '+' '*').
> > > But I saw, that a ldapsearch ldif with operational attributes has a
> > > more operational attributes than from the slapcat ldif.
> >
> > An ldapsearch generated and slapcat generated LDIF of the same db
> > will be identical for *,+ for ldapsearch.  So your statement doesn't
> > really make much sense.
>
> Sure it does. slapcat gives the raw data in LDIF format. ldapsearch
> runs it through overlays. It can generate dynamic attrs, rewrite,
> and reorder data. LDAP mostly leaves ordering unspecified.

Ah good point... I don't use such overlays. ;)

--Quanah


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Quanah Gibson-Mount
Sr. Member of Technical Staff
Zimbra, Inc
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