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Re: Question about slapcat tool

To: Ivan Mladenović <piffta@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Question about slapcat tool
From: Michael Ströder <michael@stroeder.com>
Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2010 16:46:18 +0200
Cc: openldap-technical@openldap.org
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Ivan Mladenović wrote:
> I’m trying to make backup of LDAP data by using slapcat tool.  If this
> tool is running by the root user backup is successfully created. But, if
> this tool is running by some other user following error is displayed:
> 
> bdb_db_open: alock package is unstable
> 
> backend_startup_one: bi_db_open failed! (-1)
> 
> slap_startup failed

It's pretty obvious that this has something to do with ownership/permissions
of the database files. You might have already tried something but not correctly.

Note that you should not make the database directories/files world-readable!

Ciao, Michael.

References:
- Question about slapcat tool
  - From: Ivan Mladenović <piffta@gmail.com>

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