Re: (ITS#8573) ldap* tools should be able to function w/o a conf file

[ondra@mistotebe.net]

On Mon, Jan 23, 2017 at 11:43:59PM +0000, quanah@openldap.org wrote:
> Full_Name: Quanah Gibson-Mount
> Version: 2.4.44
> OS: N/A
> URL: ftp://ftp.openldap.org/incoming/
> Submission from: (NULL) (47.208.148.26)
> 
> 
> Right now, it is impossible to configure the ldap* command line tools so that
> they function in major circumstances w/o also having a configuration file (I.e.,
> ldap.conf, .ldaprc, etc).  For example, the ability to use startTLS with LDAP
> requires such a file so that the CA file and/or cert path for the tool can be
> defined.
> 
> The "-o" option should be expanded to cover additional configuration parameters
> from the conf file, as has already been done with the network timeout parameter.

I have updated the documentation to extract the new options into
ldap.conf(5) and reference it from each tool instead. The commits at
https://github.com/mistotebe/openldap/tree/its8573-tables contain that
change.

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OndÅ?ej Kuzník
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