Re: Slapd 2.4 upgrade woes.

[Bill MacAllister <whm@stanford.edu>]

--On Tuesday, May 31, 2011 05:08:28 PM +0100 ray klassen <julius_ahenobarbus@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> I recently upgraded to debian squeeze and found that the slapd configuration
> had been completely revamped. It's now using the cn=config setup. I was authenticating against a locally
> replicated copy of my directory behind a firewall. I was using anonymous binding for my own purposes and I want to continue using it that way. I don't really want to enter into a prolonged discussion of why I
> shouldn't. I just want to know if there is a simple way of reconfiguring under the new regime so that it will work the same way it did before.Â
>
> Any Takers?

You can continue to use use a files based configuration as the basis for
your LDAP server and convert the files based configuration to cn=config
using slaptest.  The command line to do the conversion is:

 % slaptest -f /etc/ldap/slapd.conf -F /etc/ldap/slapd.d

This a reasonable way to step halfway into the new world while you figure
things out.

Bill

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Bill MacAllister
Infrastructure Delivery Group, Stanford University