Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote:
> --On Sunday, July 21, 2019 2:51 AM +0100 Howard Chu <h...@symas.com> wrote:
> 
>> The behavior is supposed to be exactly as specified in the manpages.
>>
>> There is no reason to expect back-ldap and syncrepl to be exactly alike;
>> they perform different functions.
> 
> You missed the point.  It wasn't about syncrepl vs back-ldap, it was about 
> whether or not *anything* used in slapd should ever pull in data from 
> ldap.conf.  The
> *only* thing I can find that pulls in anything from ldap.conf (per the man 
> pages) is syncrepl.  Which seems rather odd, particularly since it's only for 
> one
> specific value.  Especially given that ldap.conf(5) specifies it is only for 
> ldap clients.

A syncrepl consumer is an LDAP client. A back-ldap backend is an LDAP client.

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  -- Howard Chu
  CTO, Symas Corp.           http://www.symas.com
  Director, Highland Sun     http://highlandsun.com/hyc/
  Chief Architect, OpenLDAP  http://www.openldap.org/project/

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