Re: (ITS#6277) Missing documentation for cn=config

[gavin.henry@gmail.com]

Of course, but Ryan also mentioned the password policy overlay here
and loading overlays in general via cn=config.

On 01/09/2009, hyc@symas.com <hyc@symas.com> wrote:
> ryans@aweber.com wrote:
>> Gavin,
>>
>>> Well there are two places that talk about how to convert from slapd.conf
>>> to cn=config formats. In the guide and man pages, so that is the best
>>> way to do a full conversion and see the end result.
>>>
>>> Where would you like to see these added?
>>>
>>> Thanks for the feedback as always!
>>
>> My vote would be section 5.2.2.3 of the Admin Guide.  Currently, it has 2
>> examples of loading modules consisting of
>> libtool libraries, but I would think that it would be good to give an
>> example which, for pedagogical purposes, explained
>> how to instantiate an overlay in cn=config.  For example, ppolicy and
>> autogroup:
>
> autogroup is a contrib module. We only document usage of core features in
> the
> Admin Guide.
>
>>     dn: olcOverlay=ppolicy,olcDatabase={1}hdb,cn=config
>>     objectClass: olcOverlayConfig
>>     objectClass: olcPPolicyConfig
>>     olcOverlay: ppolicy
>
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