Re: slapd.ldif beginner

Hi Dan White and Peter Gietz. Thank's for your kind pointers in the right direction. Now I finally got it. :-) My goal was to set up openldap using only the dynamic configuration style. So I had to start from absolutely zero, everything else is considered cheating. :-) One of the first obstacles was an error telling me that my database did not accept slapadd. But it seems this error is not accurate because if I start by using a config.ldif that’s empty I get the same error. Finally I figured out with the help of some logic of my own and using man pages for openldap that I had to be sure to set the correct user to my data directory as well as my /etc/openldap/* Another problem loading my config.ldif is the slapadd command. In several places the syntax was like this: slapadd -d -1 -F /etc/openldap/slapd.d -F /etc/openldap/config.ldif That is wrong, the correct syntax is like this: slapadd -d -1 -F /etc/openldap/slapd.d -n 0 -l /etc/openldap/config.ldif Next problem that showed up was hash sign #. For some reason I had put # on line 1 in my config.ldif. This is a no no it turns out. I also did use a line with only one # between the different blocks in my config, that also gave me problems. So after removing all # from my config my config seemed to work but slapd still would not start. I finally found out that the schema block was special. Special in that regard that I had to have an empty line between schema block and the include command. By the way, It seems ok to have a line start with a # then space then some text without getting in to trouble. Like this. # This is a comment So anyway this is my config.ldif. dn: cn=config objectClass: olcGlobal cn: config olcPidFile: /run/slapd.pid olcArgsFile: /run/slapd.args olcAttributeOptions: x-hidden lang- dn: cn=module,cn=config objectClass: olcModuleList cn: module olcModulepath: /usr/lib/openldap olcModuleload: back_bdb.la olcModuleload: back_hdb.la olcModuleload: back_ldap.la dn: cn=schema,cn=config objectClass: olcSchemaConfig cn: schema include: file:///etc/openldap/schema/core.ldif dn: olcDatabase=frontend,cn=config objectClass: olcDatabaseConfig objectClass: olcFrontendConfig olcDatabase: frontend olcAccess: to attrs=name;x-hidden by * =cs olcAccess: to attrs=userPassword by * auth olcAccess: to * by * read dn: olcDatabase=config,cn=config objectClass: olcDatabaseConfig olcDatabase: config olcRootPW: secret olcAccess: to * by * none dn: olcDatabase=hdb,cn=config objectClass: olcDatabaseConfig objectClass: olcHdbConfig olcDatabase: hdb olcSuffix: dc=example,dc=intra olcDbDirectory: /srv/ldap/openldap-data olcDbIndex: objectClass eq olcDbIndex: cn,sn,mail pres,eq,approx,sub So thank’s for your help and I my self consider this problem solved. Regards Sonny 19 feb 2014 kl. 20:07 skrev Dan White <dwhite(a)olp.net&gt;: