RE: [EXTERNAL] how to migrate an openldap server to a new linux server

2024-03-26 Thread Quanah Gibson-Mount
--On Wednesday, March 27, 2024 1:07 AM + xpzhang1...@gmail.com wrote: I did ldapsearch to export schema from source ldap server, cmd is: ldapsearch -x -LLL -H "ldap://xxx:389; -D "cn=admin,ou=AdminUsers,dc=example,dc=com" -W -b "cn=schema" -o ldif-wrap=no > source-schema.ldif but

RE: [EXTERNAL] how to migrate an openldap server to a new linux server

2024-03-26 Thread xpzhang1971
I did ldapsearch to export schema from source ldap server, cmd is: ldapsearch -x -LLL -H "ldap://xxx:389; -D "cn=admin,ou=AdminUsers,dc=example,dc=com" -W -b "cn=schema" -o ldif-wrap=no > source-schema.ldif but ldapadd this ldif to target server still report: [root@phx-ldap-ol8 openldap]#

RE: [EXTERNAL] how to migrate an openldap server to a new linux server

2024-03-26 Thread Quanah Gibson-Mount
--On Tuesday, March 26, 2024 11:57 PM + xpzhang1...@gmail.com wrote: I gave a try like this way: I installed an openldap 2.6 as target server, started it up with initial slapd.ldif. Then I tried to ldapadd entries that exported from source server, but failed on the first entry, error

RE: [EXTERNAL] how to migrate an openldap server to a new linux server

2024-03-26 Thread xpzhang1971
I gave a try like this way: I installed an openldap 2.6 as target server, started it up with initial slapd.ldif. Then I tried to ldapadd entries that exported from source server, but failed on the first entry, error message: [root@ldap-ol8 openldap]# ldapadd -H ldap:/// -D

Re: [EXTERNAL] how to migrate an openldap server to a new linux server

2024-03-25 Thread Bill MacAllister
On 2024-03-25 10:42, xpzhang1...@gmail.com wrote: Tech Folks, thanks for your replies. There are too many unknowns for anyone to give you much help in creating a new LDAP instance. What OS? What version of OpenLDAP? Do you have full access to the directory data using LDAP, i.e. what

RE: [EXTERNAL] how to migrate an openldap server to a new linux server

2024-03-25 Thread Quanah Gibson-Mount
--On Monday, March 25, 2024 6:42 PM + xpzhang1...@gmail.com wrote: Tech Folks, thanks for your replies. In real world, we often face such tasks to take over a thing that not belong to you, and you even only have limited access to that thing. Is there a way figuring out configuration,

RE: [EXTERNAL] how to migrate an openldap server to a new linux server

2024-03-25 Thread xpzhang1971
Tech Folks, thanks for your replies. In real world, we often face such tasks to take over a thing that not belong to you, and you even only have limited access to that thing. Is there a way figuring out configuration, schema, and etc from ldif files generated by ldapsearch from source server?

RE: [EXTERNAL] how to migrate an openldap server to a new linux server

2024-03-25 Thread Christopher Paul
In several organizations where I worked without root access, I requested sudo permissions for slapcat. But to not have a shell, that makes life more difficult. Maybe you could get root to set up a cron to dump the extract using slapcat and deliver it somehow. Chris Paul |

RE: [EXTERNAL] how to migrate an openldap server to a new linux server

2024-03-25 Thread Quanah Gibson-Mount
--On Monday, March 25, 2024 4:51 PM + xpzhang1...@gmail.com wrote: Because port 22 is not open, I can't ssh or rlogin to the server. only can run ldapsearch such client commands. nmap to the server only see port 389 and 636 open. I don't know how the server owner maintain, startup/stop

RE: [EXTERNAL] how to migrate an openldap server to a new linux server

2024-03-25 Thread Bradley T Gill
This is sounding pretty shady. It sounds like it isn’t your data. From: xpzhang1...@gmail.com Sent: Monday, March 25, 2024 11:51 AM To: openldap-technical@openldap.org Subject: RE: [EXTERNAL] how to migrate an openldap server to a new linux server Because port 22 is not open, I can't ssh

RE: [EXTERNAL] how to migrate an openldap server to a new linux server

2024-03-25 Thread xpzhang1971
Because port 22 is not open, I can't ssh or rlogin to the server. only can run ldapsearch such client commands. nmap to the server only see port 389 and 636 open. I don't know how the server owner maintain, startup/stop the server.

RE: [EXTERNAL] how to migrate an openldap server to a new linux server

2024-03-25 Thread Bradley T Gill
Why is it not accessible? It sounds like that is the 1st problem you need to solve. You can add an ldapi to the startup. From: xpzhang1...@gmail.com Sent: Saturday, March 23, 2024 3:34 PM To: openldap-technical@openldap.org Subject: RE: [EXTERNAL] how to migrate an openldap server to a new

RE: [EXTERNAL] how to migrate an openldap server to a new linux server

2024-03-25 Thread xpzhang1971
the problem here is that source openldap server only have port 389 opened, it is not accessible, not able to run slapcat.

RE: [EXTERNAL] how to migrate an openldap server to a new linux server

2024-03-23 Thread Bradley T Gill
I would backup the database from the old server and restore it to the new one. Old Server {PATH}openldap/sbin/slapcat -n 0 – {PATH}/openldap/etc/openldap/slapd.d -l {PATH}/slapd.d.ldif {PATH}openldap/sbin/slapcat -b {BASE DN} -F {PATH}/openldap/etc/openldap/slapd.d -l {PATH}/config.ldif Copy