Re: openldap-release install

[Bill Hirsch <willem@lucasdigital.com>]

I had similar problems at first.  Check a few things:

Weber Wung wrote:
> 
> I am successfully running a openldap server in one of our Linux machine,
> although I have not figured out how to make the access control part work
> yet (if someone is expert in access control, please help me!!). Then one
> week ago, I download the new release from OpenLDAP.org and installed
> according to the instruction, and compiled without any problem. Then I did
> the following,
> 
> /usr/local/sbin/ldif2ldbm -f slapd.conf  myldif    to creat the database;
Be sure to configure your slapd.conf with 'o=<Your Company Name>'
> 
> /usr/local/libexec/slapd -f  slapd.conf              to activate the slapd;
> 
> then I tried to search the database with command
> /usr/local/src/ldap/client/tools/ldapsearch -h 127.0.0.1 'cn=Weber'
> gave me the message "Can't contact LDAP server".
> 
> If I followed the instruction to use
> ldapsearch -b 'o=company, c=US'  cn='Weber',
> then the message was "No such object".
Try:  ldapsearch -b "o=<Your Company Name>, c=US" 'cn=*'  (notice the
double quotes around the searchbase, and the single quotes around the
entire attribute statement). 
> 
> Any idea??
> 
> Thanks for your help in advance.
> 
> Weber.
> wwung@grci.com

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