Full_Name: dcoutadeur Version: 2.4.35 / git OS: openSuse 11.3 x86_64 URL: Submission from: (NULL) (80.67.162.201)

I apologize in advance if this is not considered as a bug, but I thought this ticket should help the community anyway...

The problem is that it seems impossible to add meta backend in cn=config thanks to ldapadd / ldapmodify clients. I thought the major interest for cn=config was precisely to let administrators change the configuration in a remote way, but maybe new database configuration is an exception ?

Here are the technical elements :

Content of meta.ldif :

dn: olcDatabase={2}meta,cn=config objectClass: olcDatabaseConfig objectClass: olcMetaConfig olcDatabase: {2}meta olcSuffix: dc=foo,dc=com

debug information in slapd, after the command : ldapadd -H "ldap://localhost:389" -D "cn=config" -W -f meta.ldif

518220f1 conn=1002 op=1 ADD dn="olcDatabase={2}meta,cn=config" 518220f1 meta_back_db_open: no targets defined 518220f1 backend_startup_one (type=meta, suffix="dc=foo,dc=com"): bi_db_open failed! (1) 518220f1 olcSuffix: value #0: <olcSuffix> failed startup (dc=foo,dc=com)!

However, I can add this entry via slapadd :

dn: olcDatabase={2}meta,cn=config objectClass: olcDatabaseConfig objectClass: olcMetaConfig olcDatabase: {2}meta olcSuffix: dc=foo,dc=com olcAddContentAcl: FALSE olcLastMod: TRUE olcMaxDerefDepth: 15 olcReadOnly: FALSE olcSyncUseSubentry: FALSE olcMonitoring: FALSE olcDbOnErr: continue olcDbPseudoRootBindDefer: TRUE olcDbSingleConn: FALSE olcDbUseTemporaryConn: FALSE olcDbConnectionPoolMax: 16 olcDbBindTimeout: 100000 olcDbCancel: abandon olcDbChaseReferrals: FALSE olcDbNoRefs: FALSE olcDbNoUndefFilter: FALSE olcDbNretries: 10 olcDbProtocolVersion: 3 olcDbRebindAsUser: FALSE olcDbSessionTrackingRequest: FALSE olcDbTFSupport: no structuralObjectClass: olcMetaConfig entryUUID: cf8afa3a-a284-4ac8-b60e-9431b0807ed4 creatorsName: cn=config createTimestamp: 20130430162302Z entryCSN: 20130430162302.509672Z#000000#000#000000 modifiersName: cn=config modifyTimestamp: 20130430162302Z

The fact is I don't have a metatarget configuration, because this is a subentry of olcDatabase={2}meta,cn=config, thus I must add the latter entry first.

Also notice that I can't do a slapadd with just the meta configuration. (the ldif above). If I do this, I have an error : slapadd: could not add entry dn="olcDatabase={2}meta,cn=config" (line=1): autocreation of "olcDatabase={-1}frontend" failed

I had to make a backup of the full configuration, and then add the meta configuration and import the resulting file.