Full_Name: suomi hasler Version: 2.4.8-3 OS: fedora 9 URL: http://www.ayni.com/slap-prob.txt Submission from: (NULL) (194.158.243.162)

use perl-LDAP-0.34-4.fc9.noarch to communicate with the ldap server

bind to the cn=config subtree

in this configuration, change this entry: dn="olcDatabase={-1}frontend,cn=config" which is an olcAccess with the original value of: {10}to dn.subtree="ou=postfix,dc=mydom,dc=com" by dn.base="cn=myname,ou=pam-ldap,dc=mydom,dc=com" write by dn.base="cn=postfix,ou=postfix,dc=mydom,dc=com" read by self write by anonymous auth by users none

to the following (erroneous) value (note the missing opening brace at the start)

10}to dn.subtree="ou=postfix,dc=mydom,dc=com" by dn.base="cn=myname,ou=pam-ldap,dc=mydom,dc=com" write by dn.base="cn=postfix,ou=postfix,dc=mydom,dc=com" read by self write by anonymous auth by users none

on the interface you get: <snip> Modifying Attributes of DN: olcDatabase={-1}frontend,cn=config

Modify-Result-Code: 80

Modify Attribute Error: ResultCode: 80, ErrorMessage: <olcAccess> handler exited with 1

Return Code from Modify Attribute: 80 Message: LDAP_OTHER: An unknown error has occurred

MessageID: 4 </snip>

some seconds later, slapd fails, that is, it does not reply to requests any more, and must be stopped using kill -9 pid. thereafter, the db is garbled but can be recovered by

slapd -d255 -uldap

after that you may start slapd using the normal procedures: /etc/init.d/ldap start

reproduceability: always