Re: (ITS#6529) slapcat: bad configuration file!

[masarati@aero.polimi.it]

> Full_Name: SLava
> Version: 2.4.21
> OS: Gentoo Linux
> URL: ftp://ftp.openldap.org/incoming/
> Submission from: (NULL) (77.120.255.22)
>
>
> My aim is to regularly backup openldap database, so I created a special
> backup-user to do that. But while doing this command: "slapcat -f
> /etc/openldap/slapd.conf -b "dc=my,dc=domain,dc=com" -l backup.ldif - I
> get this
> error: "/etc/openldap/slapd.conf: line 77: invalid path: Permission denied
> slapcat: bad configuration file!". I watched my conf file and there is
> "directory /var/lib/openldap-data/my-domain-com" string in line 77. I
> looked for
> permission rights and all seems to be properly. Don't know what to do...
>
> By the way, the same command under "root" works perfectly.

Your file permissions are obviously inappropriate for the operation you're
trying to perform.  There is no evidence of an OpenLDAP bug; there is not
even an evidence of an LDAP-related issue.  This ITS will be closed.

p.