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Re: Ldappasswd command executing very slowly



--On Tuesday, February 03, 2004 11:37 AM -0600 Michael Sims <michaels@crye-leike.com> wrote:

I'm in the process of upgrading our live mail server from Red Hat Linux
7.2 to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1.  I'm using OpenLDAP server
(installed from Red Hat's "openldap-servers-2.0.27-2.7.3" RPM) and
nss_ldap/pam_ldap to authenticate users via my LDAP database.  I noticed
on my RHEL test machine that password changes were taking longer than
usual.  In an attempt to narrow down the problem I created a small test
database with only one user and timed the "ldappasswd" command like so:


Hi Michael,

I will note that OpenLDAP 2.0.x is no longer supported, and is known to have various issues. It is sad that RedHat continues to distribute that version of OpenLDAP to the unsuspecting populace. You may want to evaluate later versions of OpenLDAP, like 2.1.25, which contain major fixes compared to the 2.0 line (and better databases like bdb).

Note that upgrading your LDAP db may or may not be trivial.

--Quanah


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Stanford University
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