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Re: slapindex Required or Not
Am Wed, 02 Feb 2011 12:48:41 -0700
schrieb ldap@mm.st:
> n Wed, 02 Feb 2011 19:33 +0100, "Dieter Kluenter"
> <dieter@dkluenter.de> wrote:
> > Am Wed, 02 Feb 2011 09:49:04 -0700
> > schrieb ldap@mm">ldap@mm.st:
> >
> > > I am in the process of rebuilding our ldap servers that are many
> > > years old to run on RH5. I basically took the existing
> > > slapd.conf file from the old server and am using it on the new
> > > server (minor changes). I did a slapcat on the old server,
> > > modified the schema a little and did a slapadd on the new.
> > > Systems seem to be able to authenticate against the new test
> > > server and things seem to function corretly. For now, the db
> > > backend is ldbm. It has the following index statements:
> > >
> > > index objectClass,uid,uidNumber,gidNumber,memberUid eq
> > > index cn,mail,surname,givenname
> > > eq,subinitial
> > >
> > > I'm unclear of when and if it is required to run slapindex on the
> > > new server. Is this something that should be done after slapadd
> > > and should it be done on a regular basis? I assume you should
> > > stop slapd when this is run.
> >
> > As you did a slapadd and slapadd read index statements from
> > slapd.conf there is no need to slapindex the database. But the ldbm
> > backend worries me, as it is deprecated for ages already, that
> > means you are still running an outdated openldap version.
[...]
> Yes, I guess we should move to bdm. Seems like a lot of configuration
> and tuning, which I'm not up on at the moment.
This is quite simple, man slapd-bdb(5), and
http://www.openldap.org/doc/admin24/slapdconfig.html#BDB%20and%20HDB%20Database%20Directives
> As far as slapindex, is it only necessary to run it if you add to the
> index directives? For instance, add uniqueMember to the line below:
>
> index objectClass,uid,uidNumber,gidNumber,memberUid eq
>
> Then stop slapd and run slapindex.
that's right.
-Dieter
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