RE: database configuration questions

["Marcum, Bob" <Bob.Marcum@telecheck.com>]

Aaron,

You comments were a great help ... steering me to slaptest, firstly.  I
have solved my [this one] problem.  The problem was a syntax error in
the suffix line (found by slaptest).  I have changed that line to
"dc=muckydomain, dc=com" and it likes that okay.  Thanks for taking the
time to respond.

-----Original Message-----
From: Aaron Richton [mailto:richton@nbcs.rutgers.edu] 
Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2007 11:40 AM
To: Marcum, Bob
Cc: openldap-software@openldap.org
Subject: Re: database configuration questions

There's not enough information (i.e. the whole slapd.conf) here to tell 
for sure, but my crystal ball guess would be that your previous
slapd.conf 
has a context that conflicts with this new "appended" context.

Try slaptest -d config (sounds like -d config -f /root/slapd.conf in
your 
case?) to get a better idea of what's going on.

Crystal ball guesses can be bad; include a full sanitized slapd.conf if 
you're going to follow up.

On Tue, 10 Apr 2007, Marcum, Bob wrote:

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> This is a re-transmission of a message I sent yesterday, but seems did
> not get through.
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> I am sure having a tough time sorting out what, I think, are truly
basic
> and fundamental isses!
>
>
>
> I just want to create an ldap database which will house a
> uniqueIdentifier for a user, and an associated userPassword.  I simply
> want to authenticate users (not system users, as in /etc/passwd) with
> their password.  I cannot get the database configured so slapd will
even
> come up.
>
>
>
> Here is my database configuration, which I have simply appended to the
> default slapd.conf file that normally resides in /etc/openldap on my
> linux machine:
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> database           bdb
>
> suffix                 "dn=clearerDB"
>
> rootdn               "cn=clearerDBmgr, dn=clearerDB"
>
> rootpw               myPassword
>
>
>
> directory            /var/ldapDBs/clearerDB
>
>
>
> index                objectClass       eq
>
> index                uniqueIdentifier   eq
>
> index                userPassword    eq
>
> # Other attributes used in this database:
>
> # displayName
>
> # businessCategory
>
>
>
> Actually, I have this full config file in my root's directory (I am
> logged in as root).  So when I run this command
>
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>            /usr/lib/openldap/slapd -f /root/slapd.conf
>
>
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> slapd fails to come up.  When I comment out my additional database
> configuration text, it does come up okay.
>
>
>
> BYW, the database directory does already exist; i.e., I have created
> those directories prior to attempting to bring up slapd.
>
>
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> So ... I have these questions:
>
> 1)                   What am I doing wrong?
>
> 2)                   What will cause the password for a specific
> uniqueIdentifier to be associated with one another?
>
> 3)                   Surely, slapd is reporting out to some log a
record
> of what he is doing when he comes up, or attempts to come up.  What
log
> file? Where?
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> Thanks for your time and help.
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