Full_Name: Francesco Policastro Version: 2.4.33 OS: RHEL 6.2 URL: ftp://ftp.openldap.org/incoming/ Submission from: (NULL) (94.127.80.134)

A slapd.conf using meta backend can include the following uri definition that is accepted as legal

uri "ldap://server2.domain2.net/ou=org Unit,dc=second,dc=newco,dc=com" idassert-bind bindmethod=simple binddn="cn=ldap-2,cn=Users,dc=domain2,dc=net" credentials=secret3 chase-referrals no rebind-as-user true map objectclass groupOfNames * map objectclass person * suffixmassage "dc=second,dc=newco,dc=com" "dc=domain2,dc=net" subtree-include "ou=Users,ou=1stlocation,ou=org Unit,dc=second,dc=newco,dc=com" ...

"slaptest -f slapd.conf" returns "config file testing succeeded" "slaptest -f slapd.conf -F slapd.d" converts to cn=config format "slaptest -F slapd.d" issues an error: 511a57ef olcDbURI: value #0: unable to parse URI #0 in "olcDbURI <protocol>://<server>[:port]/<naming context>". 511a57ef config error processing olcMetaSub={1}uri,olcDatabase={1}meta,cn=config: unable to parse URI #0 in "olcDbURI <protocol>://<server>[:port]/<naming context>" slaptest: bad configuration directory!

I know that the offending words are in the "ou=org Unit" directive; in fact "ou=orgUnit" (with no space) works.

The uri sintax permits to enclose the string in quotes and one assumes that spaces are legal. They are only in slapd.conf because the cn=config conversion does not accept them.