[Freeipa-users] ldap.conf

[Jakub Hrozek]

On Wed, Apr 12, 2017 at 09:30:38AM +0200, Christoph Kaminski wrote:
> Hi
> 
> are the files /etc/ldap.conf and /etc/openldap/ldap.conf for ipa client 
> and/or server systeme necessary? What is the function of them?

They configure the openldap library. If you have an application (like
ldapsearch) that links against libldap, it reads the config from these
files. That's the same as libkrb5 and /etc/krb5.conf btw.