Try the operation while authenticated as the rootdn. Kurt
At 01:22 AM 6/22/2005, jay alvarez wrote: >Hi, > Before I only have one problem, that is, no matter >how I authenticate to openldap e.g; using gssapi or >just with a -x option, I still cannot delete my root >dn. It says insufficient privilege. What I wanted to >do is to change the my root dn name. I would like it >to be changed from dc=camlann,dc=pregi,dc=net to >dc=preginet. I can delete all but the root dn. So what >I did was to just delete the whole openldap-data >directory and create another one. Now I have two >problems, slapd won't start. And even if it did, I >cannot add any ldif entry because of the error object >not found. Looking at the debug.log, bdb seems to be >looking for some sort of check point(I can see some >lines containing the old root >dn-dc=camlann,dc=pregi,dc=net). Forgive me for asking >this question here for this might be a bdb question >and not openldap specific, but it just crossed my mind >that there might be some bdb library calls being >created by openldap, and if this is the case, I will >leave this question to openldap programmers. > >I've read some berkeley db and seen some notes like >this one regarding locking or some sort of log >checkpoints, but I don't know if it has something to >do with my problem. >Quoting: > >"When designing applications that will use the log >subsystem, it is important to remember that the >application is responsible for providing any necessary >structure to the log record. For example, the >application must understand what part of the log >record is an operation code, what part identifies the >file being modified, what part is redo information, >and what part is undo information.... and many more" > >Sorry I cannot give you the debug.log because I have >emptied it. I have repeated the process but it didn't >gave me the same log message as before. As I have told >you before, slapd won't even start giving some useful >log messages but now I can make it start, only I can't >do anything when it is started. > >I hope you can help me >Thank you very much. > > > > > > >____________________________________________________ >Yahoo! Sports >Rekindle the Rivalries. Sign up for Fantasy Football >http://football.fantasysports.yahoo.com
