[Pkg-openldap-devel] Bug 207531 fixed?

[Ryan Tandy]

On Sun, Aug 07, 2016 at 09:17:49PM +0200, Diederik de Haas wrote:
>On zondag 7 augustus 2016 09:51:39 CEST Ryan Tandy wrote:
>> but does not change any current defaults,
>> neither for slapd nor libldap.
>
>Does that mean that LDAPv2 is still used by default or has the change to
>LDAPv3 taken place already? The line that triggered me thinking that the
>switch away from LDAPv2 had already been done was this:
>> LDAPv2 is historic (RFC 3494) and few users are likely to require it today.

It is true that LDAPv2 is historic, and virtually unused today. This is 
why slapd defaults to not permitting v2 (since 2001!), and why I felt 
the debconf prompt to enable it is no longer valuable.

Nonetheless, when you initialize the libldap library in your program, 
today you will still get LDAPv2 unless you explicitly ask for LDAPv3, so 
every program has to do this.