Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote: > > > --On Monday, April 26, 2021 10:46 AM -0700 Quanah Gibson-Mount > <qua...@symas.com> wrote: > >> >> >> --On Saturday, April 24, 2021 11:04 PM +0300 Николай >> Данилов <n...@dwolfix.ru> wrote: >> >>> When installing openldap with database mdb, root entry cannot be deleted. >> >> This is a bug with back-mdb that was not present with back-bdb/hdb. When >> you originally opened your issue in the bug tracker, you said you >> couldn't delete the rootDSE, which would be correct. This is an issue >> with deleting the root of the database DIT, which is different. > > As a workaround, you can stop slapd and delete the database files (data.mdb, > lock.mdb) in your configured path for where they are stored for that specific > database.
No need to stop slapd - just change the directory path in cn=config to point to a new location. Then delete the old files. > > Then add your new set of objects. -- -- Howard Chu CTO, Symas Corp. http://www.symas.com Director, Highland Sun http://highlandsun.com/hyc/ Chief Architect, OpenLDAP http://www.openldap.org/project/
