Re: creating a cn=config modules

Greg Treantos wrote: > I have read the documentation and cannot figure out how to create a new > dit so > I can add the module I need. If you can be more specific on what I should > be > looking for that would be great. But no where have I found that points > how to > create the cn=module{0} dit so it can be populated. I don't know maybe I'm > asking the wrong questions. > As you correctly noted, ldapadd and ldapmodify are the same command. However, the syntax of an LDAP Add request is different from an LDAP Modify request. As Quanah already pointed out to you, you are trying to use some corrupted form of LDAP Modify syntax, but since the entry you want doesn't exist, you actually need to use LDAP Add. The differences between these two are spelled out in the LDIF documentation. > > from the docs > > > 5.2.2. cn=module > > If support for dynamically loaded modules was enabled when configuring > slapd, > cn=module entries may be used to specify sets of modules to load. Module > entries must have the olcModuleList objectClass. > > > I don't have a cn=module dit, how do I create it? > > > > On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 6:26 PM, Quanah Gibson-Mount <quanah(a)zimbra.com > <mailto:quanah@zimbra.com>> wrote: > > --On Wednesday, July 09, 2014 6:59 PM -0400 Greg Treantos > <gtreanto(a)gmail.com <mailto:gtreanto@gmail.com>> wrote: > > > >From the man pages ldapadd is just a hardlink to ldapmodify, > but I tried > and got the same error > > > > ldapadd -Y EXTERNAL -H ldapi:/// -v -f ldapMdynalist.ldif > ldap_initialize( ldapi:///??base ) > SASL/EXTERNAL authentication started > SASL username: gidNumber=0+uidNumber=0,cn=__ > peercred,cn=external,cn=auth > > SASL SSF: 0 > add olcModuleLoad: > {0}/usr/lib64/openldap/membero__f.la <http://memberof.la > > > > > > The above is invalid. I strongly advise you to read the > documentation. > > Also, you should not be touching or creating any files inside the > cn=config database. > -- -- Howard Chu CTO, Symas Corp. http://www.symas.com Director, Highland Sun http://highlandsun.com/hyc/ Chief Architect, OpenLDAP http://www.openldap.org/project/