Re: problem importing cn=config

[Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com>]

Greg Martin wrote:
> I read this in man slapd-config:
>  "Assuming the above data was saved in a  file  named  "config.ldif"
> and  the
>        /etc/openldap/slapd.d   directory   has  been  created,  this
> command  will
>        initialize the configuration:
>               slapadd -F /etc/openldap/slapd.d -n 0 -l config.ldif"
> and:
>
>  "Alternatively,  an  existing  slapd.conf  file  can  be converted to
> the new
>        format using slapd or any of the slap tools:
>               slaptest -f /etc/openldap/slapd.conf -F ETCDIR/slapd.d"
>
>  From reading that it looks as if this is a two-step process.

That is not what the word "Alternatively" means.

> 1) to
> convert slapd.conf to ./slapd.d, and the second to "initialize" it.
> Since slapadd is used to add things to the database, I figured it was
> being imported into the database.  Is the slappadd not necessary?

If you have a plain LDIF file produced by slapcat'ing a database, you can 
slapadd it to use it.

A slapd.d directory tree produced by converting a slapd.conf file is not a 
flat LDIF file, it's a tree of related files. It is in fact an LDAP database 
that uses a hierarchical filesystem as its underlying data store. Since it is 
an actual LDAP database, slapd reads it directly.
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