And how to use such a bootstrap LDIF? Starting slapd with -f pointing to the LDIF does not work. That is what I have been looking for and could not find. Another thing I have been wandering about: What is the rootDN if it is not set in a bootstrap LDIF like the one below?
Thanks! Ralf ________________________________________ From: Howard Chu [hyc@symas.com] Sent: Tuesday, August 20, 2013 13:28 To: Steppacher Ralf; openldap-technical@openldap.org Subject: Re: How to start slapd without slapd.conf?
Steppacher Ralf wrote:
Ben,
I re-read those sections. But they only describe how to convert a
pre-existing slapd.conf file. So, to bootstrap slapd I created a minimal slapd.conf with just the config database and a rootdn/pw for it and converted that with slaptest. But I find it a bit awkward that slapd.conf should be mandatory to get started, but at the same time is declared deprecated in chapter 5 of the administrator's guide.
slapd.conf is not mandatory. Only a few lines of LDIF are needed to bootstrap.
This is a minimal slapd.ldif that you can use; it's also provided in the test suite as data/slapd-dynamic.ldif:
#### dn: cn=config objectClass: olcGlobal cn: config
dn: olcDatabase=config,cn=config objectClass: olcDatabaseConfig olcDatabase: config olcRootPW: SuperSecret
####
Thanks anyway! Ralf
From: openldap-technical-bounces@OpenLDAP.org [openldap-technical-bounces@OpenLDAP.org] on behalf of btb [btb@bitrate.net] Sent: Monday, August 19, 2013 13:57 To: openldap-technical@openldap.org Subject: Re: How to start slapd without slapd.conf?
On 2013.08.19 07.35, Steppacher Ralf wrote:
Hello all,
this is probably a really stupid question... But I cannot figure out how to start a freshly built slapd using only slapd-config configuration.
please see section 5 [configuring slapd] of the administrator's guide. also see man 5 slapd-config and man 8 slaptest
-ben
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