Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote: > --On Sunday, July 21, 2019 2:51 AM +0100 Howard Chu <h...@symas.com> wrote: > >> The behavior is supposed to be exactly as specified in the manpages. >> >> There is no reason to expect back-ldap and syncrepl to be exactly alike; >> they perform different functions. > > You missed the point. It wasn't about syncrepl vs back-ldap, it was about > whether or not *anything* used in slapd should ever pull in data from > ldap.conf. The > *only* thing I can find that pulls in anything from ldap.conf (per the man > pages) is syncrepl. Which seems rather odd, particularly since it's only for > one > specific value. Especially given that ldap.conf(5) specifies it is only for > ldap clients.
A syncrepl consumer is an LDAP client. A back-ldap backend is an LDAP client. -- -- Howard Chu CTO, Symas Corp. http://www.symas.com Director, Highland Sun http://highlandsun.com/hyc/ Chief Architect, OpenLDAP http://www.openldap.org/project/
