Emmanuel Duru wrote:

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I wouldn't say that it is harmless.

I'm not saying your problem is harmless. I'm saying that having a rootdn of cn=config that is not within cn=config but with the rootpw is a violation of slapd's configuration rules (when the rootdn is not within the naming context, it cannot have a rootpw set).

But I don't. My rootdn is cn=manager,c=fr which is a real entry in the c=fr database (bdb) with the password in the entry and no rootpw neither in c=fr nor in cn=config.