--On Tuesday, October 03, 2017 3:07 PM -0700 rammohan ganapavarapu <rammohanganap(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: Why are you using ldapadd? Did you not read the process Michael and I both described? It sounds like your mdb database is owned by root while your slapd process runs as a different user? --Quanah -- Quanah Gibson-Mount Product Architect Symas Corporation Packaged, certified, and supported LDAP solutions powered by OpenLDAP: <http://www.symas.com>