Re: OpenLDAP restart required after password change

Dieter Kluenter writes:

Kamil Wencel wencel@radion.org writes:

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I am using OpenLDAP 2.3.35 and was wondering if I really have to restart openldap after changing the userpassword attribute in the tree.

No, you don't have to restart slapd, who told you this ?

Maybe he or his source is confusing it with rootpw, which is set in slapd.conf. You must restart slapd for changes to slapd.conf to take effect. Though you can avoid that in OpenLDAP 2.3 or higher: It supports "database config", which lets you update the slapd configuration over the LDAP protocol.