[Issue 9678] slapadd prints “olcRootPW: value #0: <olcRootPW> can only be set when rootdn is under suffix” and then crashes

https://bugs.openldap.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9678

--- Comment #1 from Ondřej Kuzník ondra@mistotebe.net --- On Fri, Sep 10, 2021 at 07:41:01AM +0000, openldap-its@openldap.org wrote:

Calling

slapadd -n0 -F/home/d/ldap/conf <<ABC
[...]
dn: olcDatabase=config,cn=config
objectClass: olcDatabaseConfig
olcDatabase: config
olcRootDN: uid=yyy,cn=users,dc=example,dc=org
olcRootPW: zzz
ABC

Hi Dilian, thanks for the report.

It seems that config_add_internal calls backend_destroy_one() for the config backend invalidating the memory for the rest of the run. We check to make sure we don't free the frontend but we don't check for cn=config. cn=config doesn't keep a pointer to its BackendDB or BackendInfo so a fix should find a way around that.

Regards,