I've setup a multi-master replication between the servers, so that both my data DIT (dc=....,dc=.... ) and the cn=config should be replicated.

Actually, the replication of data works fine, as expected in either way, but the replication of the configuration tree fails:

each time I update the configuration on the second node, I get this error in my LDAP client (Apache Directory Studio):

could not put entry file in place

I've tried to run the second master in debug (-d -1) mode, and it seems like there's a write access error when the slapd daemon

(on the 2nd master) tries to update/modify/replace the /etc/openldap/slapd.d/cn=config.ldif file:

<= acl_access_allowed: granted to database root

ldif_write_entry: could not put entry file for "cn=config" in place: Permission denied

send_ldap_result: conn=-1 op=0 p=3

send_ldap_result: err=80 matched="" text="internal error (could not put entry file in place)"

send_ldap_result: conn=-1 op=0 p=3

send_ldap_result: err=80 matched="" text="internal error (could not put entry file in place)"

null_callback : error code 0x50

slap_graduate_commit_csn: removing 0x7fd19412f090 20120510163105.003156Z#000000#001#000000

syncrepl_updateCookie: rid=001 be_modify failed (80)

ldap_msgfree

The OpenLDAP error log shows the following error:

May 10 19:12:39 sashimi slapd[24866]: slapd starting

May 10 19:12:40 sashimi slapd[24866]: ldif_write_entry: cannot create file for "olcDatabase={0}config,cn=config": Permission denied

May 10 19:12:40 sashimi slapd[24866]: null_callback : error code 0x50

May 10 19:12:40 sashimi slapd[24866]: syncrepl_entry: rid=001 be_modify failed (80)

May 10 19:12:40 sashimi slapd[24866]: do_syncrepl: rid=001 rc -1 quitting

May 10 19:12:50 sashimi slapd[24866]: ldif_write_entry: could not put entry file for "cn=config" in place: Permission denied

May 10 19:12:50 sashimi slapd[24866]: null_callback : error code 0x50

May 10 19:12:50 sashimi slapd[24866]: syncrepl_updateCookie: rid=001 be_modify failed (80)

May 10 19:13:00 sashimi slapd[24866]: ldif_write_entry: could not put entry file for "cn=config" in place: Permission denied

May 10 19:13:00 sashimi slapd[24866]: null_callback : error code 0x50

May 10 19:13:00 sashimi slapd[24866]: syncrepl_updateCookie: rid=001 be_modify failed (80)

May 10 19:13:10 sashimi slapd[24866]: ldif_write_entry: could not put entry file for "cn=config" in place: Permission denied

May 10 19:13:10 sashimi slapd[24866]: null_callback : error code 0x50

May 10 19:13:10 sashimi slapd[24866]: syncrepl_updateCookie: rid=001 be_modify failed (80)

Of course, I don't have any right access problems at the file system level, I don't have any file system ACLs, I don't use SELinux and

I've checked that I can update or create any file under /etc/openldap/slapd.d, when logged in as the ldap user (who's the account used

So, this error looks like a bug to me. Already fixed ?

To setup the replication of both data and configuration, I've copied the full /etc/openldap directory from one server to the other, with the

same file system rights. I've just changed the server certificate files since I use TLS to replicate both the data and the configuration. So, I don't have

any TLS problem since the data tree replication works fine.

Here's my replication configuration for the cn=config database:

dn: olcDatabase={0}config,cn=config

...

....

olcSyncRepl: rid=001 provider=ldap://......:389 binddn="cn=config" bindmethod=simple credentials="......" searchbase="cn=config" type=refreshOnly interval=00:00:00:10 retry="5 5 300 5" timeout=1 starttls=yes

tls_cacert=/etc/openldap/conf/cacert.pem

olcSyncRepl: rid=002 provider=ldap://.....:389 binddn="cn=config" bindmethod=simple credentials="....... " searchbase="cn=config" type=refreshOnly interval=00:00:00:10 retry="5 5 300 5" timeout=1 starttls=yes tls_cacert=/etc/openldap/conf/cacert.pem

olcMirrorMode: TRUE

I actually use the same setup than for the data replication, excepted that I have rid=003 and rid=004 of course for data replication, and the BIND DN and passwords are different too.

Cyril