When googling the error I found this:

http://serverfault.com/questions/474008/cant-write-to-openldap-shadow-contex...

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Can't write to OpenLDAP: "shadow context; no update referral" up vote 1 down vote favorite

I just set up an OpenLDAP server (v2.4.23) and loaded some data. I can browse and edit via Apache Directory Studio, but not deletions all fail.

For example, I tried to delete a list of DNs from a file:

ldapdelete -f rmroles.txt -W -D "cn=admin,cn=config"

but it dies with the message:

ldap_delete: Server is unwilling to perform (53) additional info: shadow context; no update referral

Most of the info I've found suggests that this is related to replication, but I haven't set up replication on this server yet. olcReadOnly is FALSE, and I've set olcAccess to to * by * manage.

Any other ideas what could be wrong? openldap deleting share|improve this question asked Jan 30 '13 at 22:45 Brad Mace 5171417 add comment

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Apparently just having the olcMirrorMode attribute present on cn=config (even when set to FALSE) is enough to trigger shadow context. Delete the attribute and restart slapd. share|improve this answer answered Jan 31 '13 at 1:29 Brad Mace 5171417 Another contribution: I was defining olcMirrorMode on a separate "changetype: modify" in the end of the .ldif file. It does not seem to be a good idea. When I added the olcMirrorMode as part of the previous "changetype: modify" I as doing, it ran successfully. - Richard Gomes Oct 9 '13 at 21:49

Thanks for your help Quanah

John

-----Original Message----- From: Quanah Gibson-Mount [mailto:quanah@zimbra.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 19, 2014 2:25 PM To: Borresen, John - 0442 - MITLL; openldap-technical@openldap.org Subject: RE: Syncrepl and mmr

--On Wednesday, February 19, 2014 2:20 PM -0500 "Borresen, John - 0442 - MITLL" John.Borresen@ll.mit.edu wrote:

First had this (mm-server1): 5304e1ff olcMirrorMode: value #0: <olcMirrorMode> database is not a shadow slapadd: could not add entry dn=olcDatabase={1}bdb,cn=config (line=2260)

For MMR Mode, MirrorMode must be set to TRUE. If it does not accept TRUE then there is something wrong with your configuration.

--Quanah

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