Re: Changing domain name

[Dan White <dwhite@olp.net>]

On 09/26/13 14:37 +0300, Jukka Tuominen wrote:
> I'm in the process of changing the domain name of a
> kerberos/openafs/openldap server on ubuntu 10.04 LTS. ldap provides the
> user metadata such as homedir location, user and group id, etc. The server
> itself remains the same as well as the IP number. Actually I cloned it, so
> I can still access the old, working instance (only one server running at
> any time, since the IP is the same).
>
> I followed instructions telling to
>
> 1) export the old data...
>   slapcat -v -l ldap.diff
>
> 2) replace the old domain instances with the new ones using gedit
>
> 3) remove the old data
>   rm -rf /var/lib/ldap/*

Did you recreate this directory?

> 4) import the updated data back
>   slapadd -l new-ldap.diff
>
> 5) and restore dir permissions
>   chown -R openldap:openldap /var/lib/ldap/*
>
> However, whereas the export went seemingly fine,
> importing and manipulating the new data required to point the specific
> slapd.conf file. E.g. slapadd or slapindex without -f /etc/ldap/slapd.conf
> would raise an error:
>   Available database(s) do not allow [action].

So it does work with -f or doesn't? I'm not clear.

If you modified the suffix in your new-ldap.diff, did you also modify the
suffix in your slapd.conf?

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Dan White