RE: adding VLV support to OpenLDAP 2.4.31

[Chris Card <ctcard@hotmail.com>]

>>>>> It is clear from the man slapo-sssvlv(5) page that when slapd.conf is
>>>>> being used, the options should appear after the overlay directive.
>>>>> Even I got this. Where those options should go when cn=config is used?
>>>>> I do not understand it from the man page. Is this something to be
>>>>> specified using ldapmodify?
>>>>
>>>> You need to use ldapadd with ldif like this:
>>>>
>>>> dn: olcOverlay=sssvlv,olcDatabase={1}bdb,cn=config
>>>> objectClass: olcSssVlvConfig
>>>> olcOverlay: sssvlv
>>>> olcSssVlvMax: 10
>>>> olcSssVlvMaxKeys: 5
>>>>
>>>> something like
>>>>
>>>> ldapadd -x -w <password> -D cn=config -f <ldif file>
>>>>
>>>
>>> Thank you Chris,
>>>
>>> This is exactly what I needed.
>>> Should I put the leif file into the
>>> /etc/ldap/slapd.d/cn=config/cn=schema directory or
>>> /etc/ldap/slapd.d/cn\=config/ directory? What is the recommended
>>> place?
>>> [I see that -D is to specify binddn, yet I am not sure whether LDIF
>>> should go there. Sorry for being stupid.]
>>>
>> Don't update anything under /etc/ldap/slapd.d/cn\=config by hand!
>>
>> The configuration is held in an LDAP directory with suffix cn=config, and
>> you add stuff to it in exactly the same way as any other LDAP directory,
>> using ldapadd, ldapmodify etc.
>>
>> The fact that you can see files under /etc/ldap/slapd.d/cn=config is just
>> an artifact of the implementation of the cn=config db in openldap, and I believe
>> it is planned to change the implementation in the future.
>>
>
> Where should I put the ldif file, then?
>
It doesn't matter where, it's just a source file. The ldapadd utility will send the ldif to the LDAP server, and the LDAP server
will update the cn=config directory.

Chris