[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Buchan Milne) writes: > We have just started playing with LDAP replication, and I noticed that > our LDAP server (8.2) is running all the slurpd's as root. > > slapd seems to drop root permissions after opening the ports, so it's ok > to start it as root, but slurpd doesn't do this (since it doesn't > listen, it acts as an ldap client), so it should be started as user ldap > (or similar user with read access to the replication logs slapd generates). > > I haven't tested on cooker, but the init script on cooker does the same > as on 8.2.
Hi there, I'm the new openldap maintainer and I will have a look and then come back with some fixes/answers. Have a nice day, -- Florin http://www.mandrakesoft.com http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~florin/
