Simone Piccardi wrote:
On 13/05/2014 11:01, Mike Jackson wrote:
In any case, dynamic configuration IS an enterprise-grade/carrier-grade
feature as opposed to static configuration.
I don't need anything of this. I just need a simple LDAP server for a
small business, where the complexity of dynamic configuration is just a
cost with no benefit.
And anyway a lot of services (bind, apache, posfix just to name a few)
implemented dynamic configuration by the means of a kill -HUP.
That's not really dynamic configuration. Anything that requires you to
physically login to a server to issue a change is not scalable. With cn=config
you can delegate configuration privileges across an arbitrarily large network,
without requiring any host/OS privileges.
Most people didn't "need" electricity when they still had oil lamps...
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