Re: Access Control development and cn=config

["Kurt D. Zeilenga" <Kurt@OpenLDAP.org>]

At 03:42 AM 3/24/2003, Hallvard B Furuseth wrote:
>Kurt D. Zeilenga writes:
>> Anyways, it would be interesting to pursue a slapd.conf(5)-less
>> slapd(8).   Initially the server would start up without no
>> configuration, listening only on ldapi:// and running with
>> access controls allowing only the owner of slapd(8) process
>> to read/write to the directory (use ldapi:// SASL/EXTERNAL for
>> authentication).
>
>I think this requires quite a reorganization: You must start the config
>backend before the '-u' option is processed, otherwise Unix slapd can't
>open other sockets < 1024.  OTOH, I do hope you still start the other
>backeds _after_ '-u' is processed.

One could, as we do today, configure the listeners on the
command line.

Kurt