Re: how to add a new database with slapd.d?

[Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com>]

Jonathan Clarke wrote:
> On 26/07/2010 15:23, Zhang Weiwu wrote:
> > Thanks.
> >
> > Perhaps I missed some document, but what you said is not mentioned in
> > the document I referred to. I think it make a lot of sense to add new
> > database via LDAP, but a newbie would not be able to assume this can be
> > done, especially puzzled by not knowing what crediential should I use to
> > access db cn=config, because olcRootPW is not existing in any of the
> > ldif files except the one I just added:
> >
> >
> > # grep -R olcRootPW /etc/ldap/slapd.d/
> > \/etc/ldap/slapd.d/cn=config/olcDatabase=bdb:olcRootPW: secret
> > /etc/ldap/slapd.d/cn=config/olcDatabase={1}hdb:olcRootPW: secret
>
> No, I recall that Ubuntu sets up some other form of authentication tied
> into the OS... I've never really got it though, so I can't help here.
> Maybe others on the list understand how this works by default on Ubuntu?

It depends on which version of Ubuntu you're using.

In 9.10 they configure an admin password when you install/configure the package.

https://help.ubuntu.com/9.10/serverguide/C/openldap-server.html

In 10.04 they use Unix root privileges with ldapi://

https://help.ubuntu.com/10.04/serverguide/C/openldap-server.html

For future reference, distro-specific questions should be directed to your 
distro provider. Clearly we cannot provide generic answers for these questions.

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