slapd (Standalone LDAP Daemon) is an LDAP server implementation, part of the OpenLDAP open source project.
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Debugging slapd error 52 (LDAP_UNAVAILABLE)
I have a server running slapd. When I reboot the server, I am able to perform ldapsearches from the server to itself and receive correct responses for a couple of minutes. But after a couple minutes have elapsed, the server starts responding…

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Why does slapd say "bdb_equality_candidates: (objectClass) not indexed" when the indices actually exist?
I have slapd 2.4.31-1+nmu2ubuntu8.3 installed on Ubuntu 14.04 and running as master to a secondary sync. It works well for all things LDAP, but I notice these errors in /var/log/debug every so often:
May 19 09:19:01 ldap1 slapd[9507]: <=…

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OpenLDAP Give Group Write Access
Our openldap has multiple groups: useradmins, agt, ib, iss, itt
The "useradmins" group has always had permissions to edit (write) to all of the groups. I recently performed a simple 'yum update' and openldap was updated. Since that time (about 3…

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Yum Update Now SLAPD Will Not Start
I'll preface with saying I have used *nix, regularly, for >20 years; however, I have minimal experiene with openldap. I had openldap (slapd) running on a server that has been working for years. Today, I ran yum update and it updated quite a few…

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Export LDAP schema without data
For testing purposes, I need a copy of our LDAP server without any personal data.
What is the best way, to export this from an existing OpenLDAP server?
I tried ldapsearch and Apache Directory Studio, but I did not find a way to skip actual data (if…

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Will adding a new objectClass in ldap get replicated?
I have a ldap setup with one master and two replicas created using this tutorial https://help.ubuntu.com/lts/serverguide/openldap-server.html#openldap-server-replication .
If I add a new/custom objectClass to the Provider's schema, will that get…

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slapd configuration for back-sql: how to traslate examples from slapd.conf to slapd.d
I'm trying to configure slapd with back-sql (specifically postgresql backend). All documents I found (Postgresq LDAP Howto seems to be more complete) are related to old configuration that use slapd.conf while I need to use the news slapd.d dynamic…

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OpenLDAP Server nested Group search string
i got a small problem here regarding OpenLDAP. The problem is to search for the member of nested groups.
Lets say i have this construct:
dn=domain,dn=local
ou=people
cn=marvyn (inetOrgPerson)
ou=department
cn=administration…

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Dovecot + OpenLDAP
I am trying to get dovecot 2.0.19 authenticate users via LDAP (OpenLDAP 2.4.28) and using Wireshark to debug the process. It looks like the basic configuration of dovecot is fine, but it doesn't pull it off to send the right request to the LDAP…

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Best / Safest way to stop and start slapd
Im running OpenLDAP: slapd 2.4.25.
What is the best way to stop and start it ?
I want to copy the LDAP database and have read I need to stop slapd first.
Distro used is Ubuntu 11.04.

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ldap fail after ubuntu upgrade to 12.04
I have upgraded ubuntu from 10.4 to 12.04. After it's done, ldap service is stopped and failed to start again! Now none of other services function! :(
I checked error logs and found this:
Feb 22 11:52:40 atom-lan slapd[9417]: @(#) $OpenLDAP: slapd …

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How to create LDAP bind account in Centos/RedHat that allows me to search by ldapbind@server.com
I am creating an LDAP directory and searching by the full DN shows the proper results.
$ ldapsearch -x -D "cn=ldapbind,dc=server,dc=com" -w bind
I want / need to be able to search using the email address as in:
$ ldapsearch -x -D…

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Configuring OpenLDAP init script on CentOS 6.4
If I just run slapd with no arguments (as root) it starts and works fine. When I try to start it using /etc/init.d/slapd start however, it dies immediately.
I see from looking at the init script that there's a configuration file at…

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How to relocate the database directory for Red Hat Directory Server 9.0
I am running RHDS in a VM, but would like to store the data and logs on a separate volume, that is on a SAN. The partition is ext4fs on /sdb1 and is mounted as /data.
I tried many variations of the different approaches described here. First, after…

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slapd 2.4.23 hangs on ldaps connections
New install of CentOS 6.3, openldap-servers-2.4.23. Generated a new certificate request, signed the cert, started slapd. ldapsearch responds on ldapi:/// and ldap:///. However, as soon as a request is made on ldaps:///, the slapd process consumes…

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