felix.schuster@gmx.at wrote:

Full_Name: Felix Version: 2.4.19 OS: Linux/Gentoo URL: Submission from: (NULL) (78.142.131.97)

Using the new configuration scheme, I changed /etc/openldap/slapd.d/cn=config/olcDatabase={1}hdb.ldif of a running openldap instance. When I tried to restart openldap it gaves me a Segmentation Fault error. Even if I called the changes off, openldap refused to start (furthermore segfaulted). I needed to get a copy of the original configuration file from my backup to successfully start openldap again. I think it's somewhere ok to deny working with a hand-changed configuration, but I think we will need a friendly advise, no unfriendly Segementation Fault error.

cn=config is an LDAP database. Like any other LDAP database, you are only supposed to use ldapadd/modify/delete to write to it while slapd is running. You would probably get segfaults if you hand-edited the data files in a back-bdb database too. And no, we will not add code to protect from such misuse.