Re: (ITS#5690) cn=config cannot be rootdn

[quanah@zimbra.com]

--On Tuesday, September 09, 2008 4:52 PM +0000 ando@sys-net.it wrote:

> Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote:
>> --On Tuesday, September 09, 2008 10:10 AM +0000 ando@sys-net.it wrote:
>>
>>> quanah@zimbra.com wrote:
>>>
>>>> In OpenLDAP 2.3, it was possible to set the rootdn of the main database
>>>> to be cn=config.  This no longer works in OpenLDAP 2.4, but seems like
>>>> it should be valid to me.
>>>
>>> ...
>>>
>>>> cn=config is *clearly* under ""
>>>
>>> No, cn=config is *clearly* under cn=config, which comes earlier than "".
>>> But then you don't need to set rootpw.
>>
>> Ah, I see.  So this is more just a behavior change between 2.3 and 2.4.
>> Thanks!
>
> Well, I don't think they changed that much.  If you expose cn=config
> then any DN in that namespace will belong to the back-config; if you
> don't expose it, then it will belong to "".  I think you weren't using
> the same slapd.conf with 2.3 and 2.4, if you noticed a different behavior.


Hm, you're right, I mixed parts of a stock 2.4 slapd.conf with my 2.3 
slapd.conf.



--Quanah


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Quanah Gibson-Mount
Principal Software Engineer
Zimbra, Inc
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