Re: ldapsearch limit of 500 entries

My pleasure. That command should work for any changes you need to make to the base config, acl's, indexes, etc.

On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 1:03 PM, Clint Petty <cpetty(a)luthresearch.com&gt;wrote: > Hi Jason, > > > > Yes, that worked for me. > > > > Thanks > > > > *From:* Jason Brandt [mailto:jbrandt@fsmail.bradley.edu] > *Sent:* Friday, December 13, 2013 10:13 AM > *To:* Clint Petty > *Cc:* Howard Chu; openldap-technical(a)openldap.org > *Subject:* Re: ldapsearch limit of 500 entries > > > > What command syntax did you use for trying to modify cn=config? > > > > You should use EXTERNAL sasl auth when trying to modify base > config, with a command such as this: > > > > ldapmodify -Q -Y EXTERNAL -H ldapi:/// -f changefile.ldif > > > > Then your ldif file, with the value you chose, would be: > > > > dn: cn=config > changetype: modify > replace: olcSizeLimit > olcSizeLimit: -1 > > > > That should work, it's what I use for making any changes to > cn=config. > > > > On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 12:00 PM, Clint Petty > <cpetty(a)luthresearch.com&gt; wrote: > > I know you are suppose to make changes through the command line, > when using cn=config. I tried changing it through ldapmodify, > however wasn't able to get it to work. So changed it in the file > and it did work. We are transitioning away from cn=config, so this > is just a short term solution. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Howard Chu [mailto:hyc@symas.com] > Sent: Thursday, December 12, 2013 7:15 PM > To: Clint Petty; Jason Brandt > Cc: openldap-technical(a)openldap.org > Subject: Re: ldapsearch limit of 500 entries > > Clint Petty wrote: > > Thanks Jason, > > > > I resolved this issue by adding: > > > > olcSizeLimit: -1 > > > > to the etc/ldap/slapd.d/cn=config.ldif file. > > You are not supposed to manually edit the config database files. > You should have fed your change in to the running slapd using > ldapmodify. > > cn=config is a slapd database. It will very likely migrate to an > LMDB backend > in the future. Don't get the notion of manually editing it into > your head, because it won't be possible. > > > and then restarting slapd. > > There is no need to restart slapd to make configuration changes, if > you do them correctly - i.e., using ldapmodify. > > > Now works! > > > > *From:*Jason Brandt [mailto:jbrandt@fsmail.bradley.edu] > > *Sent:* Thursday, December 12, 2013 11:25 AM > > *To:* Clint Petty > > *Cc:* openldap-technical(a)openldap.org > > *Subject:* Re: ldapsearch limit of 500 entries > > > > Note that this will replace any existing limits you have set. > > > > On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 1:24 PM, Jason Brandt < > jbrandt(a)fsmail.bradley.edu > > <mailto:jbrandt@fsmail.bradley.edu>> wrote: > > > > Global size limit modification ldif file (using cn=config): > > > > dn: cn=config > > > > changetype: modify > > > > replace: olcSizeLimit > > > > olcSizeLimit: size.soft=100 size.hard=500 > > > > Per user size limit changes: > > > > dn: olcDatabase={1}hdb,cn=config > > > > changetype: modify > > > > replace: olcLimits > > > > olcLimits: dn.exact="uid=user,ou=people,dc=example,dc=com" > > size=unlimited > > > > On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 1:16 PM, Clint Petty > > <cpetty(a)luthresearch.com <mailto:cpetty@luthresearch.com>> wrote: > > > > My ldapsearch command is only returning a max of 500 entries, > > while I > know I > > have over 9,000 entries in the database. If I do not have a > > slapd.conf > file, > > how can I increase the sizelimit, to display all my entries? > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > Jason K. Brandt > > > > Systems Administrator > > > > Bradley University > > (309) 677-2958 <tel:%28309%29%20677-2958> > > > > > > > > -- > > > > Jason K. Brandt > > > > Systems Administrator > > > > Bradley University > > (309) 677-2958 > > > > > -- > -- Howard Chu > CTO, Symas Corp. http://www.symas.com > Director, Highland Sun http://highlandsun.com/hyc/ > Chief Architect, OpenLDAP http://www.openldap.org/project/ > > > > > > -- > > Jason K. Brandt > > Systems Administrator > > Bradley University > (309) 677-2958 >