I had to write my own schema for my application and I was struggling to
figure out how to import the schema I wrote to cn=config. I had though I
was missing something until I found this.
https://gist.github.com/jaseg/8577024
Notice the name of the script. Someone had to write this because there's
no tool that you can use to import schemas when the slapd is configured
with cn=config. You can get away with it by using include directive with
slapd.conf. I know there's a way to do it with slaptest, but that method
is just unacceptable. So, how I understood is, either you have to use
slaptest to rebuild the entirety of the schema in ldif format, or you
have to handcraft the schema in ldif by figuring out with {} index to
start with. This is all backwards.
slapadd and slapmodify are just cranky tools you can only use in
specific cases(eg: restoring from mdb_copy backup data). In most cases,
using those tools to manipulate cn=config is near impossible.
I like the idea behind cn=config, but I believe that calling slapd.conf
deprecated is just unfair with problems like these. Is there a set
date/version for the drop of support for slapd.conf? I'd like to stick
with slapd.conf if it's not going to happen in like 5 years time.
