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Re: On removing a duplicated ppolicy overlay
- To: openldap-technical@openldap.org, Quanah Gibson-Mount <quanah@symas.com>
- Subject: Re: On removing a duplicated ppolicy overlay
- From: Derek Zhou <derek@shannon-data.com>
- Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2018 12:15:07 +0800
- Cc: Daniel Howard <dannyman@toldme.com>
- In-reply-to: <E7FE564C6C9530DF787E828C@192.168.1.39>
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On Monday, December 03, 2018 02:11:27 PM Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote:
> --On Monday, December 03, 2018 1:57 PM -0800 Daniel Howard
> <dannyman@toldme.com> wrote:
>
>
> > A potentially minor improvement along these lines could be a very nice
> > feature enhancement for OpenLDAP. Thank you for your consideration.
>
> You're talking about two things: a) slapmodify, which is slated for
> release with OpenLDAP 2.5, which allows offline modifications of cn=config,
> and b) delete support in cn=config, also slated for release with OpenLDAP
> 2.5.
slapmodify is nice, however modifying schema is still hard. The old schema file format is still much better than the ldif format for viewing and editing. It would be a nice to have a tool that can parse and diff schemas in the old format and generate ldif modifications for slapmodify or ldapmodify to handle.
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Derek Zhou
Shannon Systems
http://www.shannon-sys.com