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OpenLDAP
Raised as a usability problem by 10 people on Hacker News over 17 years (2010–2026), in 8 threads.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads this year.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads in the last 5 years.
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Configuration docs miss important details, making setup painfulUnreviewed
20102026- Setting up OpenLDAP with NFS automounting was far more complicated and annoying than expected2026-02-18
- Managing OpenLDAP and its configuration is hard without a UI or easy tools2022-07-11
- Configuring OpenLDAP is awful, with terrible documentation missing important details2020-06-03
Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.
The newest 10 complaints
- Setting up OpenLDAP with NFS automounting was far more complicated and annoying than expected2026-02-18
- Too complicated for simple tasks, needs hours of configuration2022-07-11
- Managing OpenLDAP and its configuration is hard without a UI or easy tools2022-07-11
- Configuring OpenLDAP is awful, with terrible documentation missing important details2020-06-03
- Configuring OpenLDAP for migration was painful, with weird config files and encoding and whitespace problems2019-11-30
- Setup is needlessly complicated, and a trailing whitespace in config silently breaks everything2019-04-08
- Rich ACLs are hard to debug and fix when something goes wrong2018-08-28
- Can't find how to revert to offline config or fix a bad change blocking startup2018-08-28
- Directory server seen as a nightmare for companies running Linux to manage2016-12-18
- Steep initial learning curve for the LDAP system2010-04-18