Well, I'll have to retract the "apology in advance". LOL According the owner of the OpenLDAP-devel list, this question belongs here.
So, any help on the matter is appreciated. I'm currently digging through the OpenLDAP source code. If I figure it out, I'll post it. Thanks, Frank On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 10:41 AM, Frank Crow <[email protected]> wrote: > I understand the order, which I have read in the man page that you have > mentioned. What I'm not clear on, and what is not detailed in the > respective man page, is whether or not ldap_init()/ldap_initailize() will > use ldap.conf or the respective environment variables. > > > Thanks, > Frank > > > On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 10:37 AM, Dan White <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> On 03/30/16 10:19 -0400, Frank Crow wrote: >> >>> I'm not clear on whether I'm allowed to ask "C" API questions here. If >>> not, I apologize in advance and please disregard in that case. However, >>> the question is more about configuration than coding. >>> >>> I'm seeing that the ldap_init() function allows the hostname parameter to >>> be null or a list of hosts. If it is null, the function attempts to >>> determine the default ldap host. >>> >>> How does it determine the default LDAP host when the hostname parameter >>> is >>> null? Does it load the list of hosts from the ldap.conf URI parameter? >>> And/or does it use the LDAPURI environment variable? >>> >> >> The order is detailed in the ldap.conf manpage, within the DESCRIPTION >> section. >> >> -- >> Dan White >> > > > > -- > Frank > -- Frank
