And how to use such a bootstrap LDIF? Starting slapd with -f pointing to the LDIF does not work. That is what I have been looking for and could not find. Another thing I have been wandering about: What is the rootDN if it is not set in a bootstrap LDIF like the one below?
Thanks! Ralf ________________________________________ From: Howard Chu [h...@symas.com] Sent: Tuesday, August 20, 2013 13:28 To: Steppacher Ralf; openldap-technical@openldap.org Subject: Re: How to start slapd without slapd.conf? Steppacher Ralf wrote: > Ben, > > I re-read those sections. But they only describe how to convert a pre-existing slapd.conf file. So, to bootstrap slapd I created a minimal slapd.conf with just the config database and a rootdn/pw for it and converted that with slaptest. But I find it a bit awkward that slapd.conf should be mandatory to get started, but at the same time is declared deprecated in chapter 5 of the administrator's guide. slapd.conf is not mandatory. Only a few lines of LDIF are needed to bootstrap. This is a minimal slapd.ldif that you can use; it's also provided in the test suite as data/slapd-dynamic.ldif: #### dn: cn=config objectClass: olcGlobal cn: config dn: olcDatabase=config,cn=config objectClass: olcDatabaseConfig olcDatabase: config olcRootPW: SuperSecret #### > > Thanks anyway! > Ralf > > ________________________________________ > From: openldap-technical-boun...@openldap.org > [openldap-technical-boun...@openldap.org] on behalf of btb [b...@bitrate.net] > Sent: Monday, August 19, 2013 13:57 > To: openldap-technical@openldap.org > Subject: Re: How to start slapd without slapd.conf? > > On 2013.08.19 07.35, Steppacher Ralf wrote: >> Hello all, >> >> this is probably a really stupid question... But I cannot figure out how >> to start a freshly built slapd using only slapd-config configuration. > > please see section 5 [configuring slapd] of the administrator's guide. > also see man 5 slapd-config and man 8 slaptest > > -ben > > > -- -- Howard Chu CTO, Symas Corp. http://www.symas.com Director, Highland Sun http://highlandsun.com/hyc/ Chief Architect, OpenLDAP http://www.openldap.org/project/