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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 ...
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.