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Re: (ITS#5823) clients/tools don't honor ldap.conf defaults



----- hyc@symas.com wrote:

> h.b.furuseth@usit.uio.no wrote:
> > Pierangelo Masarati writes:
> >> -ZZ should be deprecated, and -Z should simply and strictly
> require
> >> StartTLS.
> >
> > Good point.   Except then people who are used to new clients will
> > make insecure connections when using old clients.  Maybe -Z should
> > be an error instead...
> >
> > What I'd really really like to do is throw away all the options,
> > rename the programs, and start over.  This time with the same
> option
> > names in ldap tools, slap tools, and slapd itself.  Goes with the
> > someday-in-the-future library rewrite, I suppose.
> 
> OpenLDAP 3.0...
> 
> The question is, when do we stop the 2.x stream and begin 3.0?

Cool. I say we rewrite it all in Java, this C stuff is hard to understand ;-)

-- 
Kind Regards,

Gavin Henry.
OpenLDAP Engineering Team.

E ghenry@OpenLDAP.org

Community developed LDAP software.

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