Bug 713469

Summary: Documentation needs fixing
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Reporter: guillard <orglube>
Component: openldapAssignee: Jan Vcelak <jvcelak>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: BaseOS QE Security Team <qe-baseos-security>
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Version: 6.1CC: jplans, jvcelak, tsmetana
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Description guillard 2011-06-15 13:51:14 UTC 
Description of problem:

Documentation is not consistent.

Issue : usage of "slapd.conf" is really not clear ?

Detailled description :

Extract from the doc here :

http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/Deployment_Guide/ch-Directory_Servers.html#s2-ldap-configuration

"
Note that OpenLDAP no longer reads its configuration from the /etc/openldap/slapd.conf file. Instead, it uses a configuration database located in the /etc/openldap/slapd.d/ directory

..."

Table 16.3. List of OpenLDAP server utilities

slapacl
..
slapauth
..
etc."


Extract from the man page :

$ man slapacl

...
DESCRIPTION
   Slapacl is used to check the behavior of the slapd in verifying a ccess
   to data according to ACLs, as specified  in  slapd.access(5). It  opens
   the slapd.conf(5) configuration file, reads in the access directives...


$ man slapauth
...
DESCRIPTION
 Slapauth  is  used to check the behavior of the slapd in mapping identities
 for authentication and authorization purposes, as specified in slapd.conf(5).
 It opens the slapd.conf(5) configuration file ...
Comment 2 Jan Vcelak 2011-08-24 13:04:38 UTC 
This issue should be targeted upstream. A lot of manual pages were not updated after migrating from slapd.conf to slapd.d. Or are kept from compatibility reasons. The decision of updating/removing them is up to upstream developers.

Please, file upstream bug in OpenLDAP issue tracking system:
http://www.openldap.org/devel/contributing.html

Closing this bug as WONTFIX.