From: Quanah Gibson-Mount <quanah@openldap.org>
Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2007 22:56:48 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Clarify rootdn requirements
X-Git-Tag: OPENLDAP_REL_ENG_2_3_39~6
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=86a769397ea5b566b0daf94f0e359072aa788857;p=thirdparty%2Fopenldap.git

Clarify rootdn requirements
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diff --git a/doc/man/man5/slapd.conf.5 b/doc/man/man5/slapd.conf.5
index 7b3e6288e3..776f86e211 100644
--- a/doc/man/man5/slapd.conf.5
+++ b/doc/man/man5/slapd.conf.5
@@ -1429,7 +1429,8 @@ when initially populating a database).  If the rootdn is within
 a namingContext (suffix) of the database, a simple bind password
 may also be provided using the
 .B rootpw
-directive. Note that the rootdn is always needed when using syncrepl.
+directive. Many optional features, including syncrepl, require the
+rootdn to be defined for the database.
 .TP
 .B rootpw <password>
 Specify a password (or hash of the password) for the rootdn.  The