I did exactly the same until I had my head wrapped around all the details of openldap. I then converted everything to the cn=config method quite easily after that.
Anyway, if you provide the details mentioned before, we should be able to figure out where the problem is coming in. Thanks /Cole On 20 February 2016 at 19:45, Dave Beach <[email protected]> wrote: > >>It is unlikely your installation uses slapd.conf at all. Modern OpenLDAP >>installations have long since abandoned that deprecated method of >>configuration. > > Understood. I'm using slapd.conf until I get things working again, at which > point I can decide if I want to convert to cn=config. Slapd is starting with > -f /etc/ldap/slapf.conf. > > > >
