Hallvard B Furuseth wrote: > Michael Ströder writes: > >>On 2:00:38 am 2007-01-10 "Kurt D. Zeilenga" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>>At 11:50 AM 1/6/2007, Hallvard B Furuseth wrote: >>> >>>>I've had it with explaining that the suffix is the root of the >>>>database which is not the rootdn which is not the Unix user "root". >>>>Any hope of renaming rootdn and rootpw to admindn and adminpw, with >>>>rootdn/pw as backwards-compatible and eventually undocumented >>>>aliases? >>> >>>Hack away... if you want it in 2.4, it should be done SOON. >> >>IMO this renaming/aliasing will lead to even more confusion on the >>mailing lists. In this case I'd recommend to teach people rather than >>changing the config code. > > But with the name "rootdn", the teaching goes on forever! With a > change, the confusion may some day end.
Sorry, up to now nobody I've teached mixed Unix user root with rootdn of OpenLDAP. I think it's not such a big issue. Ciao, Michael.
