Re: Accessing cn=config

[Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com>]

Dave Horsfall wrote:
> On Fri, 17 Feb 2006, William wrote:
>
>   
> > I usually add a database in slapd.conf file :
> >
> > database config
> > rootdn cn=config
> >     

The rootdn already defaults to cn=config, no need to specify it explicitly.

> > rootpw secret
> >
> > search : ldapsearch -w secret -x -D cn=config -b cn=config 
> >     
>
> Thanks - that did the trick.  It doesn't show up in GQ, but that's likely 
> to be a GQ problem.
>
> Related question: as a test, I changed olcConnMaxPending in cn=config, and 
> although I was able to see the change, it was not stored in 
> slapd.d/cn=config.ldif (not even when I shut down the server).  Does 
> something else need to be done?
>   

Make sure you started slapd without any -f option, and with -F (or with 
slapd.d in the default location). The cn=config tree is always present, 
but if you started slapd using a slapd.conf file then no changes are saved.

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