I figured it out. I needed to only include the slapd.conf file in the directory, not slapd.ldif. Also generated rfc2307bis files and populated the database. Very cool! Thanks to the developers here!

On Tue, Jul 1, 2025 at 7:10 PM Quanah Gibson-Mount <quanah@fast-mail.org> wrote:

--On Sunday, June 29, 2025 2:49 AM -0400 Nick <atod101101@gmail.com> wrote:

> Import the configuration database
> su root -c /usr/local/sbin/slapadd -n 0 -F /usr/local/etc/slapd.d -l
> /usr/local/etc/openldap/slapd.ldif

What is the contents of slapd.ldif? And I assume the
/usr/local/etc/slapd.d/ directory exists and has no contents.

--Quanah