On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 12:55 PM, Albert Braden <[email protected]> wrote: > Do you use IRC? I've had good luck getting help on FreeNode, in #ldap and > #openldap > > Even there, people will likely ask you to read the documentation so that you > can ask intelligent questions. They're helpful, but they don't want to do > your work for you. If you haven't already done so, I would read a lot of this > site: > > http://www.openldap.org/doc/admin24/ > > For diagnostic purposes, I recommend using ldapsearch and other command-line > tools instead of a GUI client. A question likely to receive a helpful > response would look something like this: > > I'm running OpenLDAP version X on <OS>, and when I run this command: > > XXX > > I see this error: > > YYY > > And this appears in slapd.log: > > ZZZ > > Here's the relevant section of my config: > > AAA > > -----Original Message----- > From: openldap-technical [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Timothy Keith > Sent: Thursday, February 11, 2016 1:35 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: rebuilding the DIT > > On Tue, Feb 9, 2016 at 7:02 PM, Timothy Keith <[email protected]> > wrote: >> I used slapcat followed by slapadd. The Perl Net::LDAP sounds useful. >> >> Tim > > > Is there a good forum for newbie openlap questions? > > I saved another DIT using slapcat, then loaded using slapadd. But, > that is now returning error code 49 : invalid credentials ( in > JXplorer ). I'm using the rootpw password that > is defined in /etc/openldap/ldap.conf > > Tim >
I stopped the service, and then restarted slapd with the -d 1 ( debug ) and also used the -f /etc/openldap/ldap.conf. Now, it is accepting the password for rootdn ( which I have never explicitly changed ) Tim
