corrupted database?

[Susanne Benkert <benkerts@emt.iis.fhg.de>]

Hi,

yesterday I had a serious problem with my openldap database (I'm using 
Openldap-2.0.23.):

I inserted several new entries using an LDIF an the "import" function of 
Ldapbrowser. I could search these entries using ldapsearch or the 
Ldapbrowser without problems, but pam_ldap could not find these entries 
at all. I always got an "User xy doesn't exist" error. Deleting and 
re-adding these entries with ldapadd didn't change anything. Running 
slapindex had no effect. Even cleaning up the whole database didn't 
solve the problem. Finally I recompiled openldap and created a 
completely new database based on my old LDIF files. After that my 
database seems to be Ok again.

Can anybody tell my were these problems might come from? Only entries 
which were added with the import function of Ldapbrowser where 
concerned. Maybe it has something to do with indexes? (I have two eq 
indexes on objectclass and uid.)


Thank you for any little piece of support.
Susanne