can't delete entries

[Justin Georgeson <jgeorgeson@unboundtech.com>]

I imported /etc/hosts and /etc/passwd with the PADL tools. So far so 
good. I was able to log in on another machine authenticating against 
this. I'm still in my testing out everything phase, so I tried to delete 
stuff. Specifically, I tried to run ldapdelete with the same credentials 
and ldif file I used to ldapadd hosts. This is the error I get

ldap_bind: Invalid DN syntax
        additional info: invalid DN

So I doublechecked the binddn I gave with -D against the rootdn in 
/etc/openldap/slapd.conf, looked fine. The only thing I found in the FAQ 
was this

http://www.openldap.org/faq/data/cache/231.html

But I'm not sure what to do with that information. Here's my access 
config from /etc/openldap/slapd.conf

access to attr=userPassword
        by self write
        by anonymous auth
        by dn="cn=sysadm,dc=unboundtech,dc=com" write
        by * none
access to *
        by self write
        by dn="cn=sysadm,dc=unboundtech,dc=com" write
        by * read

I think the addition of the rootdn explicitly is redundant though.

Separate question, RedHat's authconfig added ldap for a bunch of things 
other than passwd, stuff like services and protocols and stuff. I hadn't 
thought that would have been necessary (since I only had hosts and 
passwd in my LDAP database anyway) so I removed ldap from those extra 
ones. I can't log in anymore via ssh or serial console, not even with a 
local account. Any ideas there? I may have stopped/started the LDAP 
server somewhere in there, but I would have thought a client machine 
only hit the LDAP during authentication.

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Justin Georgeson
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