You didn't read my original mail. Let me clearify again.
The point was that why I have to make a separate conf file to feed it to
slaptest to generate ldif whereas with slapd.conf you can just use include. And
another problem with cn=config is that if you wanna add a schema, you have to
either rebuild the entire schema attributes or handcraft ldif with proper
starting {} index(ldapadd will not do this for you).
cn=config: 1 text editor, 2 tools, 2 files involved
slapd.conf: 1 text editor involved
to achieve the same goal.
If you don't see a problem here, just stay out of it.
On 5 April 2022 12:21:37 am AWST, Quanah Gibson-Mount <[email protected]>
wrote:
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>--On Tuesday, April 5, 2022 12:24 AM +0800 David Timber <[email protected]>
>wrote:
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>> https://www.openldap.org/doc/admin26/slapdconf2.html#cn=config
>>
>> I don't see olcInclude in the doc.
>>
>> https://lists.openldap.org/hyperkitty/list/[email protected]/m
>> essage/EBTNZ6QPDTU3YJUT4LSU3FDIOICVKZ2T/
>>
>> This is an undocumented feature. I'm not writing/using any script. I'm
>> not using slaptest to convert schema to ldif.
>
>It's include, not olcInclude, if you're using slapadd. Example:
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><https://gist.github.com/quanah/4c6e477c9946442889b9f84de2091fbf#file-gistfile1-txt-L16>
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>>> This is incorrect. You can use ldapadd to import schema to an
>>> existing cn=config database. Just like you add entries to any other
>>> database. It's generally clear the person who wrote the "tool" you are
>>> referring to is utterly clueless in how to use OpenLDAP.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Quanah
>>>
>>>
>> https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-server-73/how-to-add-a-new
>> -schema-to-openldap-2-4-11-a-700452/
>>
>> This is all I can find. I'm not doing that. Are you saying I can just use
>> ldapadd? Care to elaborate?
>
>As long as the schema file being imported is in cn=config format, you can
>use ldapadd to add it. All schema shipped with OpenLDAP are provided in
>both slapd.conf ("x.schema") and cn=config ("x.ldif") formats. If you are
>using a pre cn=config "x.schema" file, you need to convert it to cn=config
>format first. The "slaptest" utility explicitly allows one to do this.
>
>So assuming you have a cn=config formatted ldif file:
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>ldapadd .... -f inetorgperson.ldif
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>
>Regards,
>Quanah
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