As I was updating the manual for the 1.2 release of Json2Ldap I got stuck on the ldap.presetBind section. Explaining the preset bind feature in a clear and concise way, particularly how to configure it properly due to its various security implications - that turned out to be quite a puzzle. And if I, as the developer of Json2Ldap, supposedly knowing the product inside-out, find it hard to internalise the feature, then how about the poor users?
In the end I decided to spare myself (and my users) this trouble and removed the preset bind command from Json2Ldap.
The corollary:
If you can't document a feature in a clear and concise way - then it should be better left out!
The simplified, sans ldap.presetBind Json2Ldap gateway/proxy is now available as version 1.3.
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