so, i changed all the permissions in the /var/lib/ldap/* chmod 0755 /var/lib/ldap/ I retried with slapindex with the same result: from root: sudo /usr/sbin/slapindex WARNING! Runnig as root! There's a fair chance slapd will fail to start. Check file permissions! from normal user: usr/sbin/slapindex /etc/ldap/slapd.conf: line 20: invalid path: Permission denied slapindex: bad configuration file!
You're running slapindex incorrectly. Clearly your setup uses cn=config, so you need to provide the "-F" option with the path to your config database.
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