David Timber wrote: > Quanah, I think I've pissed you off. I apologise. Well, if you don't see the > problem, then that's fine. No need to get pissed off. You don't have to reply. > That's fine. Just chill, man. It's not good for you. I read the whole admin > guide and man pages. I'm not complaining just because out of ignorance. That > kind of > assumption is just a personal attack, not very nice of you(thf, I started it. > Sorry). I'm making this point because I care about OpenLDAP and I want it to > be > better. I don't understand why we have to get emotional here. > > > I know how to import schemas with cn=config. That was never a question.
No. You've demonstrated that you don't understand at all. > I was just complaining because it's a tedious process and I believe that it > shouldn't be > like this. It isn't. You've made more than one factual error describing its requirements. > The whole cn=config matter was not even my question in the first place. My > concern was that I'm not happy with how cn=config handles schemas and I > want to stick with "deprecated" slapd.conf. slaptest has to be used to > convert schema to ldif, which is in no way intuitive and convenient. > > On 5/4/22 12:27, Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote: >> And you're literally missing the point that a ".schema" file is a syntax >> specific to slapd.conf and a ".ldif" file is a syntax specific to cn=config. >> Just as >> you cannot load a ".schema" file into cn=config, you cannot load a ".ldif" >> file into slapd.conf. The two things are *equivalent* representations for >> their >> respective configuration types. In the future, expect only ".ldif" files to >> get shipped once we finalize deprecating slapd.conf. > > The format of schema is defined in RFC 4512. It's universal. OpenLDAP has no > right to be difficult in incorporating schemas. Forcing users to convert it > to ldif > to just fit into the OpenLDAP specific cn=config format is not just fair, > especially for the sake of compatibility. I'd have been happy if I could just > use > include: attribute to load .schema. > > > To anyone else, just forget everything I said. I just wanted to know when the > slapd.conf support will be dropped. THAT was my question. > > And, don't get me wrong. cn=config is a great idea! > > -- -- Howard Chu CTO, Symas Corp. http://www.symas.com Director, Highland Sun http://highlandsun.com/hyc/ Chief Architect, OpenLDAP http://www.openldap.org/project/
