I could able to do this.. I missed the line in my ldif file dn: olcDatabase={2}bdb,cn=config. Apologize Regards, Mohan From: S, Mohan (GE Energy) Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2012 8:26 PM To: openldap-technical(a)openldap.org Subject: Editing the olcAccess Hi, I've configured olcAccess for my bdb database and I can't able to modify that using ldapmodify. I tried deleting that : ldapmodify -x -h xxx.example.org -D "cn=replicator,ou=admins,dc=example,dc=org" -w secret -f delete.ldif No error cat delete.ldif changetype: modify delete: olcAccess olcAccess: {0} olcAccess: {1} ldapmodify -x -h xxx.example.org -D "cn=replicator,ou=admins,dc=example,dc=org" -w secret -f add.ldif No error cat add.ldif changetype: modify add: olcAccess olcAccess: to attrs=userPassword by self write by anonymous auth by dn.children="ou=admins,dc=example,dc=org" write by * none olcAccess: to * by self write by dn.children="ou=admins,dc=example,dc=org" write by * read olcAccess: to * by self write by dn.children="ou=melbourne,dc=example,dc=org" write by * read my ldapsearch -xLLL -b cn=config -D cn=admin,cn=config -W olcDatabase={1}bdb returns old olcaccess. New access are not getting reflected. Can anyone guide my how to add/edit olcaccess? Can anyone please help me ... Thanks, Mohan