Re: Installation openLDAP in Debian

[Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com>]

Olivier wrote:
> Hi Howard,
>
> > The directory structure under slapd.d is private/internal to slapd.
> > Forget it is even there. As far as you're concerned, it does not even exist.
>
> Could you please concretly explain how you let say tune or add
> rootdse operational attributes imediatly after having installed
> a fresh openldap2.4 distribution without editing files ?

On a fresh installation that has not yet been configured:

slapadd -n0
dn: cn=config
cn: config
objectclass: olcglobal
olcRootDSE: /some/text/file
<EOF>

> more simple : How you define or change the rootpw still without
> editing files ?

slapadd -n0
dn: cn=config
objectClass: olcGlobal
cn: config

dn: olcDatabase={0}config,cn=config
objectClass: olcDatabaseConfig
olcDatabase: {0}config
olcRootPW: MySecretPassword
<EOF>

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