Given the ldap.conf (5) man page, any ldap client using the libraries should parse the ldap.conf. So that should make the putenv unnecessary? The following is from linux, but of course openbsd has the same thing listed.
Geff
NAME ldap.conf, .ldaprc - ldap configuration file
SYNOPSIS /etc/openldap/ldap.conf, .ldaprc
DESCRIPTION If the environment variable LDAPNOINIT is defined, all defaulting is disabled.
The ldap.conf configuration file is used to set system-wide defaults to
be applied when running ldap clients.
Users may create an optional configuration file, ldaprc or .ldaprc, in
their home directory which will be used to override the system-wide
defaults file. The file ldaprc in the current working directory is
also used.Quoting Timo Sirainen <tss@iki.fi>:
On Fri, 2005-12-02 at 16:37 +0100, David Coppa wrote:
Is there a way to specify, in the dovecot-ldap.conf file, where to look for the client certificate and key files? Or maybe make dovecot parse the ldaprc file under /etc?
Doesn't /etc/ldap/ldap.conf get parsed also with Dovecot?
If not, what if you add to src/auth/main.c line 207 (just before lib_signals_init()):
putenv("LDAPCONF=/etc/ldap/ldap.conf");