Hello, thanks for the report.
On Tue, Aug 18, 2026 at 03:13:24PM +0200, Daniel Teichmann wrote:
When slapd is installed with “slapd/no_configuration=true” (manual
configuration, as done e.g. by the Debian Edu installer for the main server
Tjener), /var/lib/ldap is no longer created since openldap 2.6.13+dfsg-1,
breaking slapadd, slapd itself and the Debian Edu tjener LDAP bootstrap.
I apologize for the unexpected and undocumented change.
I'm actually wondering if the change might be an improvement. When
slapd/no_configuration is requested, we don't know where the database
will eventually be stored, or whether a file-backed one will even be
used. I don't see a reason to assume the admin will use, or wants,
/var/lib/ldap.
To put it differently, if someone had opened a bug pointing out that
slapd/no_configuration still created an unnecessary /var/lib/ldap
directory, I might have acted on it.
Would it be a challenge for Debian Edu to adapt and handle creating its
desired database directory itself?
Would you mind pointing me to the relevant code that installs and
configures slapd for Debian Edu? I'm interested in why
slapd/no_configuration is the best solution for its needs.
thanks,
Ryan
