Configuration can be find in the DIT, Active Directory does it quite well. But you're right, even say with Active Directory, certain key knobs are outside of th

Configuration can be find in the DIT, Active Directory does it quite well. But you're right, even say with Active Directory, certain key knobs are outside of the DIT. The problem I had with OpenLDAP was that if you fucked up, and it wouldn't start, how are you supposed to be able to fix it if the config requires the service to be running. It wasn't very well thought through...