Lets try this out. Ubuntu apparently has gotten it together and fixed the issue
with dpkg-reconfigure. Red Hat has not. And wouldn't you guess I am using Red
Hat. I looked at the Red Hat documentation and it is exactly what I am fed up
with. Convert slapd.conf is the wrong way.
I have started slapd and tried running ldapmodify with the LDIF below and I get
an error.
dn: olcDatabase={1}hdb,cn=config
changetype: modify
replace: olcSuffix
olcSuffix: dc=lillyrnd,dc=org
Error
[root@here ~]# ldapmodify -Y EXTERNAL -H ldapi:/// -f setup.ldif
SASL/EXTERNAL authentication started
SASL username: gidNumber=0+uidNumber=0,cn=peercred,cn=external,cn=auth
SASL SSF: 0
modifying entry "olcDatabase={1}hdb,cn=config"
ldap_modify: No such object (32)
matched DN: cn=config
Sherman Lilly
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From: David Gabriel [[email protected]]
Sent: Monday, November 16, 2015 3:35 AM
To: Sherman Lilly
Cc: OpenLDAP, Technical [[email protected]]
Subject: Re: OpenLDAP installation. Am I missing something?
Hi Sherman,
I am also beginner ...
I advise you to use this
tutorial<https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-and-configure-a-basic-ldap-server-on-an-ubuntu-12-04-vps>.
Regards,
2015-11-13 15:29 GMT+01:00 Sherman Lilly
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>:
I may have this totally wrong but why is there no installation documentation
that tells somebody how to setup OpenLDAP the right way. After installing
OpenLDAP you have no slapd.conf file so that direction is not happening. If you
modify any file in the slapd.d directory, startup will complain about bad
checksum. Yes I know you can regenerate the checksum and fix that but why? I
can't find any where that tells you how to modify the base dn, rootdn, and root
password without editing the files in the slapd.d manually. Am I missing
something? I have check Google, Youtube, and other places and they all say
manually edit files in slapd.d. That can't be the right way if openldap server
is complaining about doing it.
Sherman Lilly
