Bug#390954: [Pkg-openldap-devel] Bug#390954: slapd is compiled withou SLAPI support

[Quanah Gibson-Mount]

--On Sunday, October 22, 2006 12:43 PM +0200 Torsten Landschoff 
<torsten at debian.org> wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 03:33:24PM -0700, Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote:
>
>> Compiling OpenLDAP with SLAPI support means that ACL caching is
>> disabled.  However, I'll note that ACL caching is broken in 2.3 for some
>> types of  ACLs, and compiling with SLAPI support is the only way to make
>> those ACL's  work correctly.  So even though I do not use SLAPI plugins,
>> I compile with  SLAPI enabled so that my ACL's work right.
>
> Wouldn't that come with a big performance impact?

Always possible, I didn't really notice one. ;) And my ACL file is several 
hundred lines.  On the other hand, I use SASL/GSSAPI binds, which slows 
down things enough that the missing caching may have no effect.

--Quanah


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Stanford University
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