On Tue, May 11, 2004 at 10:05:03AM -0400, James B. Byrne wrote: > I am exploring LDAP on FC1 with the desire to eventually use it to > register mail accounts for cyrus imapd service. I am still in the > "brick wall" portion of the learning curve so I have a lot of > unanswered questions, but I will start with one. Why are there two > (2) ldap.conf files in fedora C1? One is in /etc and the other is in > /etc/openldap. Neither bear any resemblance to the other and both > are touched when ldap is configured from the gnome app that come with > fedora. The /etc/openldap/ldap.conf file is read by the OpenLDAP libraries, which works out to affecting almost every LDAP-using application on the system. The /etc/ldap.conf file is read only by nss_ldap and pam_ldap, and contain settings which affect their behavior specifically. (The naming is unfortunate but historic at this point.) The system-config-authentication module modifies both because they're generally expected to have the same values for settings which they share (the name of your directory server, for example). HTH, Nalin
