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remove unnecessary and deprecated "lastmod" statement usage description (ITS#3789)

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Pierangelo Masarati 2005-06-17 17:44:11 +00:00
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@ -50,25 +50,26 @@ Other database options are described in the
.BR slapd.conf (5)
manual page.
.LP
Note: as with the
.B ldap
backend, operational attributes related to entry creation/modification
should not be used, as they would be passed to the target servers,
generating an error.
Moreover, it makes little sense to use such attributes in proxying, as
the proxy server doesn't actually store data, so it should have no
knowledge of such attributes.
While code to strip the modification attributes has been put in place
(and #ifdef'd), it implies unmotivated overhead.
So it is strongly recommended to set
Note: In early versions of back-ldap and back-meta it was recommended to always set
.LP
.RS
.nf
lastmod off
.fi
.RE
.LP
for every
.B ldap
and
.B meta
backend.
database.
This is because operational attributes related to entry creation and
modification should not be proxied, as they could be mistakenly written
to the target server(s), generating an error.
The current implementation automatically sets lastmod to off, so its use
is redundant and should be omitted, because the lastmod directive will
be deprecated in the future.
.SH SPECIAL CONFIGURATION DIRECTIVES
Target configuration starts with the "uri" directive.
All the configuration directives that are not specific to targets