Re: slapd 2.2.24 will not start as non root user

[Iain M Conochie <iain@shihad.org>]

On 01/03/2011 15:40, Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote:
> --On Tuesday, March 01, 2011 1:30 PM +0000 Iain M Conochie 
> <iain@shihad.org> wrote:
>
> > Well - I have managed to get 2.4.23 working starting as root and 
> > using the
> > -g and -u options to actually run as user ldap. 2.4.24 was NOT able 
> > to do
> > that giving the error above. Since I have a working version now I am
> > pretty happy.
> >
> > However the error that 2.4.24 gives seems bizarre. I can do more testing
> > on this if you want further info; perhaps slapd is unable to find the 
> > user
> > ldap?
>
> Use slapd -d -1 -u ldap -g ldap
>
> on OpenLDAP 2.4.24, and see what it reports.  It should certainly work 
> with 2.4.24 as well as 2.4.23.

OK. I think I have found the issue.

These servers use ldap for authentication. When I remove the local 
/etc/ldap.conf file 2.4.24 starts fine as user ldap. When I have the 
local /etc/ldap.conf file slapd 2.4.24 refuses to start. So it looks 
like slapd 2.4.24 is unable to find the ldap user when ldap 
authentication is in effect.

Now this user is local to the machine (i.e. has and entry in /etc/passwd 
etc) and is not in the ldap directory. (hence slapd can start without 
the ldap authentication.

As I say 2.4.23 seems fine so we are going with this.

Thanks

Iain

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