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["Roger Gregory" <godot@mindspring.com>]

Greetings--

My basic goal is to construct a 'contact-list database', one which does
not refer outside of itself.  To this end, I've constructed the
following:

1) exported Netscape's address book, taking care to remove carriage
returns. And example of the output (from the top-- I have added the
'host=muse'):

        dn: cn=John Doe, mail=, host=muse
        modifytimestamp: 19990713173637Z
        cn: John Doe
        xmozillausehtmlmail: FALSE
        sn: Doe
        givenname: John
        countryname: United States of America
        objectclass: top
        objectclass: person

2) Converted the above ldif as follows:

        ldif2ldbm -i contacts.ldif -f /etc/openldap/slapd.conf

3) Restarted slapd (I've included my slapd.conf below for completeness):

        # This is the main ldapd configuration file.

        # Schema and objectClass definitions
        include         /etc/openldap/slapd.at.conf
        include         /etc/openldap/slapd.oc.conf

        # Schema check allows for forcing entries to
        # match schemas for their objectClasses's
        schemacheck     off

        # Where clients are refered to if no
        # match is found locally
        #referral       ldap://ldap.four11.com

        # Where the pid file is put. The init.d script
        # will not stop the server if you change this.
        pidfile         /var/run/slapd.pid

        ##################################
        # ldbm database definitions
        ##################################

        # The backend type, ldbm, is the default standard
        database        ldbm

        # The base of your directory
        suffix          "host=muse"

        # Where the database file are physically stored
        directory       "/var/lib/openldap"

        # By default, only read access is allowed
        defaultaccess   read

        # The userPassword by default can by changed
        # by the entry owning it if they are authenticated.
        # Others should not be able to see it, except the
        # admin entry above
        access to attribute=userPassword
        by * none
        by self write

        # The admin dn has full write access
        access to * by dn="cn=admin, ou=People, host=muse" write

        # End of ldapd configuration file

4) To test things, I try:

- Netscape address book client (selecting 'offline download' yields the
following in my logs)

slapd[23268]: conn=0 fd=7 connection from herbert (192.168.1.2)accepted.
slapd[23269]: conn=0 op=0 SRCH base="" scope=0 filter="(objectclass=*)"
slapd[23269]: conn=0 op=0 RESULT err=32 tag=101 nentries=0
slapd[23268]: conn=0 op=-1 fd=7 closed errno=0
slapd[23270]: conn=0 op=1 UNBIND
slapd[23268]: conn=1 fd=7 connection from herbert (192.168.1.2)accepted.
slapd[23299]: conn=1 op=0 SRCH base="" scope=0 filter="(objectclass=*)"
slapd[23299]: conn=1 op=0 RESULT err=32 tag=101 nentries=0
slapd[23268]: conn=1 op=-1 fd=7 closed errno=0
slapd[23300]: conn=1 op=1 UNBIND

- using the ldapsearch tool:

[root - ~] ldapsearch 'objectclass=*'
ldap_search: No such object

I'm a bit lost at this point: it took me some time to stumble upon the
fact that Netscape's address book could generate a ldif for me, and
everything seems working insofar as the daemon is concerned-- thus I'm
sure I'm missing something basic which I passed over in the
documentation-- any assistance would be greatly appreciated..

Kind regards--

Roger

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