Hello. I'm running openldap 2.4.33 with on-line configuration (slapd-config). Before running slapd with on-line configuration i developed my own schema and after that i converted old fashioned slapd.conf to slapd.d. Today i modified one attribute in my schema from this: olcAttributeTypes: {9}( 2.16.840.1.113730.3.1.217 NAME 'spamassassin' DESC 'Sp amAssassin user preferences settings' EQUALITY caseExactMatch SYNTAX 1.3.6.1.4.1.1466.115.121.1.15 ) to this olcAttributeTypes: {9}( 2.16.840.1.113730.3.1.217 NAME 'spamassassin' DESC 'Sp amAssassin user preferences settings' SUP name ) I was binded to cn=config with DN that is not part of that tree, my dn was uid=zinovik,ou=people,dc=...,dc=ru So after that change i noticed that i see following messages while running slaptest: ldap1:~ $ sudo slaptest -vF /etc/openldap/slapd.d 51800ba4 PROXIED attributeDescription "OU" inserted. 51800ba4 PROXIED attributeDescription "DC" inserted. config file testing succeeded I pointed out that this happened because i modified entries in cn=config with modifierName not being part of cn=config namespace. But that is not a problem. Problem happens when i do following ldap1:~ $ cat example.com.ldif dn: dc=example.com,ou=Mail,dc=...,dc=ru objectClass: top objectClass: domain objectClass: amavisAccount dc: example.com amavisLocal: TRUE ldap1:~ $ ldapadd -v -ZZxWD uid=zinovik,ou=people,dc=...,dc=ru -f example.com.ldif add objectClass: top domain amavisAccount add dc: example.com add amavisLocal: TRUE adding new entry "dc=example.com,ou=Mail,dc=...,dc=ru" modify complete ldap1:~ $ ldapsearch -LLLZZxWD uid=zinovik,ou=people,dc=...,dc=ru -b ou=Mail,dc=...,dc=ru -s one '(&)' Enter LDAP Password: dn: dc=example.com,ou=Mail,dc=...,dc=ru objectClass: top objectClass: domain objectClass: amavisAccount ou: example.com amavisLocal: TRUE Why i do not see 'dc' attribute in this entry and why 'ou' appeared? Trace of this operation: 51800cc6 >>> dnPrettyNormal: <dc=example.com,ou=Mail,dc=...,dc=ru> 51800cc6 <<< dnPrettyNormal: <dc=example.com,ou=Mail,dc=...,dc=ru>, <dc=example.com,ou=mail,dc=...,dc=ru> 51800cc6 ==> unique_add <dc=example.com,ou=Mail,dc=...,dc=ru> 51800cc6 oc_check_required entry (dc=example.com,ou=Mail,dc=...,dc=ru), objectClass "domain" 51800cc6 oc_check_required entry (dc=example.com,ou=Mail,dc=...,dc=ru), objectClass "amavisAccount" 51800cc6 oc_check_allowed type "objectClass" 51800cc6 oc_check_allowed type "dc" 51800cc6 oc_check_allowed type "amavisLocal" 51800cc6 oc_check_allowed type "structuralObjectClass" 51800cc6 mdb_dn2entry("dc=example.com,ou=mail,dc=...,dc=ru") 51800cc6 => mdb_dn2id("dc=example.com,ou=mail,dc=...,dc=ru") 51800cc6 <= mdb_dn2id: get failed: MDB_NOTFOUND: No matching key/data pair found (-30798) 51800cc6 => mdb_entry_decode: 51800cc6 <= mdb_entry_decode 51800cc6 mdb_dn2entry("cn=ldap admins,ou=groups,dc=...,dc=ru") 51800cc6 => mdb_dn2id("cn=ldap admins,ou=groups,dc=...,dc=ru") 51800cc6 <= mdb_dn2id: got id=0xfab 51800cc6 => mdb_entry_decode: 51800cc6 <= mdb_entry_decode 51800cc6 mdb_entry_get: rc=0 51800cc6 => mdb_dn2id_add 0x1f19: "dc=example.com,ou=mail,dc=...,dc=ru" 51800cc6 <= mdb_dn2id_add 0x1f19: 0 51800cc6 => index_entry_add( 7961, "dc=example.com,ou=Mail,dc=...,dc=ru" ) 51800cc6 <= index_entry_add( 7961, "dc=example.com,ou=Mail,dc=...,dc=ru" ) success 51800cc6 => mdb_entry_encode(0x00001f19): dc=example.com,ou=Mail,dc=...,dc=ru 51800cc6 <= mdb_entry_encode(0x00001f19): dc=example.com,ou=Mail,dc=...,dc=ru 51800cc6 mdb_add: added id=00001f19 dn="dc=example.com,ou=Mail,dc=...,dc=ru" 51800cc6 send_ldap_result: conn=1000 op=2 p=3 When i try to modify attribute: dn: dc=example.com,ou=Mail,dc=...,dc=ru changetype: modify add: dc dc: example.com I get: modifying entry "dc=example.com,ou=Mail,dc=...,dc=ru" ldap_modify: Object class violation (65) additional info: attribute 'ou' not allowed Even my root object lost its 'dc' attribute somehow: ldap1: ~$ ldapsearch -LLLZZxWD uid=zinovik,ou=people,dc=...,dc=ru -b dc=...,dc=ru -s base '(&)' dn: dc=...,dc=ru ou: ... objectClass: organization objectClass: dcObject o: my organization If it matters i use slapd-mdb as storage backend. I did not changed 'dc' and 'ou': ldap1:~ $ ldapsearch -LLLZZxWD uid=zinovik,ou=people,dc=...,dc=ru -b 'cn={0}core,cn=schema,cn=config' '(&)' olcAttributeTypes|egrep -e "'(ou|dc)'" Enter LDAP Password: olcAttributeTypes: {8}( 2.5.4.11 NAME ( 'ou' 'organizationalUnitName' ) DESC ' olcAttributeTypes: {49}( 0.9.2342.19200300.100.1.25 NAME ( 'dc' 'domainCompone I do not use slapo-rwm. Here are my overlays for dc=...,dc=ru: dn: olcOverlay={0}memberof,olcDatabase={1}mdb,cn=config objectClass: olcOverlayConfig objectClass: olcMemberOf olcOverlay: {0}memberof olcMemberOfDangling: ignore olcMemberOfRefInt: TRUE olcMemberOfGroupOC: groupOfNames olcMemberOfMemberAD: member dn: olcOverlay={1}refint,olcDatabase={1}mdb,cn=config objectClass: olcOverlayConfig objectClass: olcRefintConfig olcOverlay: {1}refint olcRefintAttribute: seeAlso olcRefintAttribute: uniqueMember olcRefintAttribute: member olcRefintNothing: cn=EMPTY dn: olcOverlay={2}unique,olcDatabase={1}mdb,cn=config objectClass: olcOverlayConfig objectClass: olcUniqueConfig olcOverlay: {2}unique olcUniqueURI: ldap:///ou=Hosts,dc=...,dc=ru?ipHostNumber?sub olcUniqueURI: ldap:///ou=People,dc=...,dc=ru?uid,uidNumber?sub olcUniqueURI: ldap:///ou=Groups,dc=...,dc=ru?cn,gidNumber?sub olcUniqueURI: ldap:///ou=Mail,dc=...,dc=ru?mail,mailLocalAddress?sub dn: olcOverlay={3}syncprov,olcDatabase={1}mdb,cn=config objectClass: olcOverlayConfig olcOverlay: {3}syncprov olcSpCheckpoint: 200 20 olcSpSessionlog: 100