Re: failed to start slapd & can't create password - please help.

[Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com>]

sam wrote:
> Hi Gibson,
>
> Thank you for your response.
> How can I build Openldap with MD5 support?
> Would the following make options work?

Quanah's post leapt to a premature conclusion. You should first check to see 
if using quotes works "{MD5}" since curly brackets are special in most command 
shells.

And of course, you should pay attention to the docs since the slappasswd(8) 
manpage already warns you that quotes will probably be needed.

> --enable-modules --enable-crypt
>
> Thanks
> Sam
>
>
> Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote:
> > --On Sunday, June 20, 2010 11:20 AM +1000 sam<sam@ip6.com.au>  wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > With the following setup:
> > >
> > > hometest:openldap # uname -a
> > > FreeBSD hometest.ip6.com.au<http://hometest.ip6.com.au>  8.1-RC1 FreeBSD
> > > 8.1-RC1 #0: Fri Jun 18
> > > 15:26:58 EST 2010
> > > root@hometest.ip6.com.au:/usr/
> > > obj/usr/src/sys/mail.db.java.portal
> > > i386
> > > hometest:openldap # pkg_info | grep -i ldap
> > > openldap-sasl-client-2.4.22 Open source LDAP client implementation
> > > with SASL2 support
> > > openldap-sasl-server-2.4.22 Open source LDAP server implementation
> > > hometest:openldap # pkg_info | grep -i db
> > > db46-4.6.21.4       The Berkeley DB package, revision 4.6
> > > hometest:openldap # pkg_info | grep -i sasl
> > > cyrus-sasl-2.1.23   RFC 2222 SASL (Simple Authentication and Security
> > > Layer)
> > > cyrus-sasl-saslauthd-2.1.23 SASL authentication server for cyrus-sasl2
> > > openldap-sasl-client-2.4.22 Open source LDAP client implementation
> > > with SASL2 support
> > > openldap-sasl-server-2.4.22 Open source LDAP server implementation
> > >
> > > I can't create password for ldap:
> > > hometest:openldap # slappasswd -h {MD5} -s password
> > > Password generation failed for scheme MD5: scheme not recognized
> >
> > It wasn't built with MD5 support.  If it is, it works:
> >
> > [zimbra@freelancer ~]$ /opt/zimbra/openldap/sbin/slappasswd -h {MD5}
> > -s blah
> > {MD5}bx7QAqtVlYWQFOvwlRUi2Q==
> >
> >
> >
> > > hometest:rc.d # ./slapd start
> > > Starting slapd.
> > > ./slapd: WARNING: failed to start slapd
> >
> > Run slapd -d -1 to see why it failed to start.
> >
> > --Quanah


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