--On Thursday, July 28, 2005 8:07 PM +0200 Michael Ströder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Quanah, I do see all the advantages of slapd.conf mentioned above. But I also see the issues with inconsistencies and user confusion. Arent' you then questioning usefulness of back-config in general?
No, not at all. I already intend to use it on my production systems. However, for doing a wide range of testing where I can make immediate changes and restart the server with a new version of slapd.conf, no, I don't intend to use it.
BTW: Testing various setups by using -F with different directories is as easy as using -f. And you can check in the configdir/ tree to CVS as well without problem.
Not really. I can copy slapd.conf and make minor tweaks to it very quickly, and store those slapd.conf files with specific tests quite easily.
Furthermore if in the future ACLs and access/audit logging is implemented for back-config you have a much more powerful instrument to track configuration changes than CVS for slapd.conf.
Last I checked, back-config supported my ACLs...
=> One has to decide which route to go and after that one has to follow that route consequently to avoid inconsistencies and double effort.
And sometimes, there is more than one route to a destination, each route with its pros and cons.
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