Re: Problem converting slapd.conf to cn=config format

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

--On Wednesday, October 03, 2012 11:42 PM +0200 Patrick Lists 
<openldap-list@puzzled.xs4all.nl> wrote:

> On 10/03/2012 11:31 PM, Michael StrÃder wrote:
> > Patrick Lists wrote:
> > > New to the list and (Open)LDAP so apologies if I'm missing the obvious.
> > > I've gone through the Admin Guide and some other docs I found online
> > > but I still have problems converting a slapd.conf to the cn=config
> > > format on a CentOS 6.3 x86_64 box with openldap-2.4.23-26.el6_3.2
> >
> > There have been numerous fixes since 2.4.23 to the config conversion.
> > Please re-test with a recent OpenLDAP version.
>
> Thank you for your quick reply. You are the 2nd person recommending I
> upgrade so I'll give 2.4.32 a try.
>
> OT: I wonder how users of Red Hat RHEL handle this as it's not very
> common to roll your own because iirc Red Hat will only support their own
> packages.

A lot do, because using RH's package is untenable, given the how vastly out 
of date they are.

I will note pre-built packages are already available at 
<http://ltb-project.org/wiki/download#openldap>

--Quanah


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Quanah Gibson-Mount
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