Thank you guys for your help! I'll try my way through it. One more question here, i have a old working slapd.conf file from a RHEL server, if I want to same slapd.conf file & provide its path in /etc/default/slapd as SLAPD_CONF=/etc/ldap/slapd.conf should that work? Or should I need to make more changes? Has anyone done this before? Any articles you may want to suggest I should go through to achieve this?
Thanks Shamika On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 5:43 PM, Matt Kassawara <mkassaw...@gmail.com>wrote: > Starting with Ubuntu Karmic (9.10), the slapd package changed from creating > a typical LDAP administrator account (i.e., username and password) to using > LDAPI and SASL EXTERNAL which automatically provides LDAP administrator > access via the system root account. As root, run your LDAP utilities with > "-Y external -H "ldapi:///" instead of "-x", "-D", and "-W" where > appropriate. For example, to search your LDAP directory: > > ldapsearch -Y external -H "ldapi:///" -b dc=domain,dc=com > > I'm not sure why the Ubuntu Server Guide for 9.10 did not get updated to > reflect these changes, but if you search the web for "ubuntu sasl external" > you'll get quite a few hits on the issue. You may also want to read these > bugs when configuring clients: > > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/423252 > > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/427842 > > Matt > > > On 3/30/10 4:04 AM, Shamika Joshi wrote: > >> I have followed following article to install/configure OpenLDAP on >> Ubuntu Server 9.10 >> https://help.ubuntu.com/9.10/serverguide/C/openldap-server.html >> >> There is no slapd.conf in picture here instead running "dpkg-reconfigure >> slapd" should come up with following Wizard (got this after running >> through numerous articles on this) >> >> *Wizard steps:* >> >> 1. *omit openldap server configuration? – no* >> 2. *dns domain name? vm.example.org <http://vm.example.org>* >> 3. *organization name? myCompany* >> 4. *database backend to use? hdb* >> 5. *do you want the database to be removed when slapd is purged? yes* >> 6. *may be the question: move old database? yes* >> 7. *administrator password? the same one as entered during installation* >> 8. *confirm password? see last step* >> 9. *allow LDAPv2 protocol? no* >> >> >> However in my installation wizards asks >> * >> Omit OpenLDAP server configuration? No >> Do you want the database to be removed when slapd is purged? No >> Allow LDAPv2 protocol? No >> Creating initial slapd configuration... done. >> Starting OpenLDAP: slapd. >> >> *Has anyone attempted this before? What I'm missing here? Could someone >> like to pitch in for some help? >> >> So when I run "ldapsearch -x" it gives me following output >> >> adm...@x6:/etc/ldap$ ldapsearch -x >> # extended LDIF >> # >> # LDAPv3 >> # base <> (default) with scope subtree >> # filter: (objectclass=*) >> # requesting: ALL >> # >> >> # search result >> search: 2 >> result: 32 No such object >> >> # numResponses: 1 >> >> >> where is should give the output like >> >> # extended LDIF >> # >> # LDAPv3 >> # base (default) with scope subtree >> # filter: (objectclass=*) >> # requesting: ALL >> # >> >> #vm.example.org <http://vm.example.org> >> >> >> dn: dc=vm,dc=example,dc=org >> objectClass: top >> objectClass: dcObject >> objectClass: organization >> o: myCompany >> dc: vm >> >> # admin,vm.example.org <http://vm.example.org> >> >> dn: cn=admin,dc=vm,dc=example,dc=org >> >> objectClass: simpleSecurityObject >> objectClass: organizationalRole >> cn: admin >> description: LDAP administrator >> >> # search result >> search: 2 >> result: 0 Success >> >> # numResponses: 3 >> # numEntries: 2 >> >> >> >> Thanks >> Shamika >> >
