Re: failed to start slapd & can't create password - please help.

[Quanah Gibson-Mount <quanah@zimbra.com>]

--On Sunday, June 20, 2010 11:20 AM +1000 sam <sam@ip6.com.au> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> With the following setup:
>
> hometest:openldap # uname -a
> FreeBSD hometest.ip6.com.au <http://hometest.ip6.com.au> 8.1-RC1 FreeBSD
> 8.1-RC1 #0: Fri Jun 18
> 15:26:58 EST 2010
> root@hometest.ip6.com.au:/usr/
> obj/usr/src/sys/mail.db.java.portal
> i386
> hometest:openldap # pkg_info | grep -i ldap
> openldap-sasl-client-2.4.22 Open source LDAP client implementation
> with SASL2 support
> openldap-sasl-server-2.4.22 Open source LDAP server implementation
> hometest:openldap # pkg_info | grep -i db
> db46-4.6.21.4       The Berkeley DB package, revision 4.6
> hometest:openldap # pkg_info | grep -i sasl
> cyrus-sasl-2.1.23   RFC 2222 SASL (Simple Authentication and Security
> Layer)
> cyrus-sasl-saslauthd-2.1.23 SASL authentication server for cyrus-sasl2
> openldap-sasl-client-2.4.22 Open source LDAP client implementation
> with SASL2 support
> openldap-sasl-server-2.4.22 Open source LDAP server implementation
>
> I can't create password for ldap:
> hometest:openldap # slappasswd -h {MD5} -s password
> Password generation failed for scheme MD5: scheme not recognized

It wasn't built with MD5 support.  If it is, it works:

[zimbra@freelancer ~]$ /opt/zimbra/openldap/sbin/slappasswd -h {MD5} -s blah
{MD5}bx7QAqtVlYWQFOvwlRUi2Q==



> hometest:rc.d # ./slapd start
> Starting slapd.
> ./slapd: WARNING: failed to start slapd

Run slapd -d -1 to see why it failed to start.

--Quanah



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Quanah Gibson-Mount
Principal Software Engineer
Zimbra, Inc
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