Re: rootDN problems with slapd-config

[Dave Schneider <Dave.Schneider@e2open.com>]

Thanks, running the command you suggested to generate the slapd.d 
directory from does produce a working system.  I realized a mistake I 
was making was trying to use the config ldif file as-is in the slapd.d 
directory, rather than passing it to slapadd to initialize the contents 
of the directory (process described in the Quick Start section).  
However, that wasn't working for me either so I took a step back and 
tried to start at the beginning by following the step-by-step 
instructions in the Quick Start section of the doc. Aside from using a 
different installation prefix than /usr/local, the source slapd.ldif 
file I'm using is identical to the one in the doc (unedited from the 
install).  Yet when I initially ran the slapadd command (step 9) I got:

# /e2open/app/openldap/sbin/slapadd -F 
/e2open/app/openldap/etc/cn=config -l 
/e2open/app/openldap/etc/openldap/slapd.ldif
57c1af30 invalid config directory /e2open/app/openldap/etc/cn=config, 
error 2
slapadd: bad configuration directory!

Assuming there was just a missed step in the doc that you needed to 
create the directory specified by the -F option, I created it but now 
the command returns:

    Available database(s) do not allow slapadd

Running with full debug doesn't seem to shed any additional light on 
what the problem is.  How can I find out more about what this error 
indicates?  As far as I can tell I'm now following the quick start 
process exactly as documented and yet I'm still failing to get it 
configured.  Thanks in advance for any pointers.

Dave

On 08/26/2016 02:45 PM, Dieter Klünter wrote:
> Am Thu, 25 Aug 2016 15:26:56 -0500
> schrieb Dave Schneider <Dave.Schneider@e2open.com>:
>
> > I'm having problems getting the rootDN working when using
> > slapd-config form of configuration, while the "exact" same
> > configuration using slapd.conf works fine.  Here are my stripped down
> > test versions of the two configurations (hashed password is 'secret'
> > from slappasswd):
> [...]
>
> I am not willing to debug your configuration, but I would just delete
> the cn=config database and run as root:
>
> slaptest(8) -f /path/to/slapd.conf -F /path/to/slapd.d/
>
> and compare the result.
>
> -Dieter