Re: Invalid rootDN on OpenLDAP for z/OS

[Greg Matthews <gmatt@nerc.ac.uk>]

On Fri, 2003-08-01 at 08:10, Thomas Broeker wrote:

> For the backend we use gdbm-1.8.3 . The slapd deamon seems to work quite
> normal, but when we specify a root dn other than "", we get the following
> error:
> 
> > slapd -f slapd.conf -t -d -1
>  init: initiated .
> reading config file
> line 0 (pidfile      ./slapd.pid)
> line 0 (argsfile   ./slapd.args)
> line 0 (database    ldbm)
> line 0 (suffix      "")
> >>> dnPrettyNormal: <>
> <<< dnPrettyNormal: <>, <>
> line 0 (rootdn      "cn=manager")
> >>> dnPrettyNormal: <>
> => ldap_bv2dn(Î4 Î5¬,84)
> <= ldap_bv2dn(,0)=1
> => ldap_dn2bv(1)
> @wÖ@w{: line 477790252: rootdn DN is invalid
> config check failed
>  shutdown: freeing system resources.
> slapd stopped.
> connections_destroy: nothing to destroy
> 

rootDN is invalid

> The slapd.conf contains the following:
> 
> include         ../schema/core.schema
> pidfile      ./slapd.pid
> argsfile   ./slapd.args

are relative pathnames such a good idea?

> database    ldbm
> suffix      ""

put a proper suffix in here

> rootdn      "cn=manager"
> rootpw      secret
> directory   ../db

what are the permissions on this directory, does it exist?

> index   objectClass   eq
> 
GREG
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