Full_Name: Yishai Shimoni Version: OS: Linux URL: ftp://ftp.openldap.org/incoming/ Submission from: (NULL) (212.179.58.174) The problem lay in the rights of NEXTID. The first time I ran the server I did it with the ROOT user, and thus the NEXTID file was created with write rights for ROOT only. The next times I tried to use the same server using a non root user, the server could not update the NEXTID file.