Quanah/Tobias:
Actually, modifying .ldif files directly and restarting the slapd worked for me. I have tested it many times for different changes, so far so good. You are welcome to test it out.
Yan
-----Original Message----- From: openldap-technical-bounces@OpenLDAP.org [mailto:openldap-technical-bounces@OpenLDAP.org] On Behalf Of Quanah Gibson-Mount Sent: Monday, September 24, 2012 12:44 PM To: Tobias Hachmer; openldap-technical@openldap.org Subject: Re: slapd: way of configuration
--On Monday, September 24, 2012 6:11 PM +0200 Tobias Hachmer lists@kokelnet.de wrote:
Hello list,
I want to know what the recommended way is to configure slapd. I'm using openldap package 2.4.28 under ubuntu precise. As default there is no /etc/ldap/slapd.conf and the whole configuration is located under /etc/ldap/slapd.d/ in ldif format.
- Must I use ldapmodify to change slapd configuration in cn=config
backend or can I just change configuration directives directly in the appropriate ldif file under /etc/ldap/slapd.d/cn=config/* ? If the latter, have I to restart slapd after configuration changes?
You must use ldapmodify. Alternatively, you can slapcat the cn=config DB, modify the resulting LDIF, and re-import it. See the -n 0 option to slapcat/slapadd.
Never modify the files under cn=config directly.
- Will the old school way to configure slapd via slapd.conf be
deprecated and not available at all in future?
Correct.
--Quanah
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