Re: How do I allow root to edit mdb database?

[John Lewis <oflameo2@gmail.com>]

On 08/02/2016 08:17 AM, Hallvard Breien Furuseth wrote:
> On 02. aug. 2016 13:15, John Lewis wrote:
>> If I wanted to map the permissions from
>> dn.exact=gidNumber=0+uidNumber=0,cn=peercred,cn=external to my
>> olcRootDN: which I will call cn=Manager,dc=example,dc=com which is the
>> olcRootDN: for dn: olcDatabase={1}mdb,cn=config, how would I do it?
>
> Set the global directive olcAuthzRegexp (in cn=config) aka authz-regexp
> (in slapd.conf) to
> "^gidNumber=0[+]uidNumber=0,cn=peercred,cn=external$"
> "cn=Manager,dc=example,dc=com"
>
>
Slapd.conf? That is deprecated so I don't use it at all. I use ldapvi or
ldbedit instead and connect using cn=config as the  base and
cn=admin,cn=config as the bind dn.

They both render the directory as a file and run the ldap query behind
the scenes.