zhangweiwu@realss.com wrote:
Dear all
I've had this strange problem on a new openldap (2.4.9-0ubuntu0.8.04.2) installation:
root@emerson # slapd -d 256 -h 'ldap://0.0.0.0:636/' -f /etc/ldap/slapd.conf @(#) $OpenLDAP: slapd 2.4.9 (Aug 5 2008 20:18:55) $ buildd@palmer:/build/buildd/openldap2.3-2.4.9/debian/build/servers/slapd /etc/ldap/slapd.conf: line 126: rootdn is always granted unlimited privileges. /etc/ldap/slapd.conf: line 143: rootdn is always granted unlimited privileges. /etc/ldap/slapd.conf: line 158: invalid path: Permission denied slapd stopped. connections_destroy: nothing to destroy.
Where: root@emerson # sed -n 158p /etc/ldap/slapd.conf directory "/var/lib/ldap_jxpado"
After a lot of experiment it seems anything other than '/var/lib/ldap', when used for directory directive, would generate "invalid path: Permission denied". I also tested /var/lib/ldap/jxpado in case slapd runs in chroot by mistake (~openldap=/var/lib/ldap).
I checked the source code. I am a terrible C code reader, but I found before this error message is printed slapd check permission by creating /var/lib/ldap/jxpado/DUMMY and unlink it, if no error, go on, otherwise pop up this error. I did exactly the same with commandline without error.
# su openldap $ touch /var/lib/ldap/jxpado/DUMMY $ rm /var/lib/ldap/jxpado/DUMMY $ exit #
This is rather strange to me, could it be the Ubuntu server edition of slapd was modified? I configured a dozen more slapd server where I altered directory, on Gentoo Linux, this is the first time I do it on Ubuntu server.