Antw: How to change BaseDN? (OpenLDAP/slapd)

["Ulrich Windl" <Ulrich.Windl@rz.uni-regensburg.de>]

>>> Dominique Fuchs <d.fuchs91@icloud.com> schrieb am 07.08.2019 um 16:43 in
Nachricht <b63b9723-ad57-49e6-ae37-1cc63ace6f74@me.com>:
> Hi everyone,
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> I'm actually stuck trying to set up an OpenLDAP implementation on my server 
> running debian/slapd. Based on the hostname of the server (server.foo.bar) 
> slapd automatically sets up the base config with dc=foo,dc=bar as BaseDN. 
> This runs fine and I can connect successfully. However, I actually want the 
> BaseDN for the LDAP structure to rely on the subdomain ldap.foo.bar 
> (dc=ldap,dc=foo,dc=bar). How can I accomplish this?
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> I already tried to fiddle around with ldapmodify/ldif-files, but the only 
> thing I found online where descriptions of how to add a node, not how to 
> change the root node.

Export the database, delete the database, edit the exported database, and then re-import the modified database?

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> This post on SO:
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> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/19537319/change-basedn-in-openldap 
> only explains how to rename an existing setup (and even there I can't 
> imagine there isn't a more native way of changing the BaseDN).
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> Thanks in advance!