Quanah/Tobias: Actually, modifying .ldif files directly and restarting the slapd worked for me. I have tested it many times for different changes, so far so good. You are welcome to test it out.
Yan -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Quanah Gibson-Mount Sent: Monday, September 24, 2012 12:44 PM To: Tobias Hachmer; [email protected] Subject: Re: slapd: way of configuration --On Monday, September 24, 2012 6:11 PM +0200 Tobias Hachmer <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello list, > > I want to know what the recommended way is to configure slapd. I'm > using openldap package 2.4.28 under ubuntu precise. > As default there is no /etc/ldap/slapd.conf and the whole > configuration is located under /etc/ldap/slapd.d/ in ldif format. > > 1. Must I use ldapmodify to change slapd configuration in cn=config > backend or can I just change configuration directives directly in the > appropriate ldif file under /etc/ldap/slapd.d/cn=config/* ? If the > latter, have I to restart slapd after configuration changes? You must use ldapmodify. Alternatively, you can slapcat the cn=config DB, modify the resulting LDIF, and re-import it. See the -n 0 option to slapcat/slapadd. Never modify the files under cn=config directly. > 2. Will the old school way to configure slapd via slapd.conf be > deprecated and not available at all in future? Correct. --Quanah -- Quanah Gibson-Mount Sr. Member of Technical Staff Zimbra, Inc A Division of VMware, Inc. -------------------- Zimbra :: the leader in open source messaging and collaboration
