Re: LDAP browsers and cn=config

2011-03-08 Thread Howard Chu
Gervase Markham wrote: Can you tell me which LDAP browsers do support this scheme? After all, the other part of my message was asking for advice on which was best. Ironically, I used to use the Netscape browser as my preferred LDAP browser, many years ago. Don't recall when they axed that

Re: LDAP browsers and cn=config

2011-03-08 Thread Michael Ströder
Howard Chu wrote: Gervase Markham wrote: Can you tell me which LDAP browsers do support this scheme? After all, the other part of my message was asking for advice on which was best. Ironically, I used to use the Netscape browser as my preferred LDAP browser, many years ago. Yes, that's the

LDAP browsers and cn=config

2011-03-07 Thread Gervase Markham
How does one use an LDAP browser to view and change the cn=config config? I am using the OpenLDAP 2.4.23 package from Ubuntu 10.10, and have been using both luma and more recently ApacheDS. I have tried an enormous number of ways all afternoon, but feel I'm stumbling in the dark. Do I have to

Re: LDAP browsers and cn=config

2011-03-07 Thread Gervase Markham
Hi Torsten, Thanks for your help! On 07/03/11 17:37, Torsten Schlabach (Tascel eG) wrote: Take a look at the olcAccess attribute values of your cn=config database. This should tell you who's allowed to read it or not. I did add a value to try and make this work (see below), but perhaps I

Re: LDAP browsers and cn=config

2011-03-07 Thread Gervase Markham
On 07/03/11 17:49, Gervase Markham wrote: oldRootDN: cn=admin,cn=config ^ And that would be the problem :-| Thank you for your help. shuffles feet in an embarrassed fashion Gerv

Re: LDAP browsers and cn=config

2011-03-07 Thread Howard Chu
Gervase Markham wrote: On 07/03/11 17:49, Gervase Markham wrote: oldRootDN: cn=admin,cn=config ^ And that would be the problem :-| Thank you for your help.shuffles feet in an embarrassed fashion cn=config is an LDAP database, it is not a collection of files for you to edit by hand.