thanks for the tip, does this dynamic configuration come with openldap 2.4? the version they use in the book is 2.3 which is also the version on centos 5.7 so i guess i'm safe there , but now i'm wondering if this isn't too outdated. does it make's sense to start with learning an older version? i'm basically just looking for a way to familiarise myself with all the terms and tools as i'm fairly new to all this ( i only have experience with apple's open-directory). what do you think? wessel On 10/27/2011 05:28 PM, Craig White wrote: > Ubuntu has been using 'dynamic' configuration (aka cn=config and /etc/ldap/slapd.d) for quite some time now but you're using CentOS 5.x which includes an old version of OpenLDAP and uses the 'flat file' configuration (/etc/openldap/slapd.conf) > > There's bound to be issues at each place where it talks about 'configuration'. > > My suggestion to you is to use some type of virtualization product (VMWare, VirtualBox, etc.) and install Ubuntu 10.04 LTS on a virtual and then you will track with the book. > > Craig > > On Oct 27, 2011, at 5:01 AM, Wessel van der Aart wrote: > >> actually i'm reading this book , ' mastering openldap' from packt >> publishing, on it, >> the book uses ubuntu as distro in their examples and i just assumed the >> working of openldap between distro's wouldn't be any different (except >> for directory paths). however i removed the moduleload line , ran >> 'slaptest -v -u -f /etc/openldap/slapd.conf' (the 'database hdb' bit was >> already there) and now it's fine. >> >> Thanks, >> wessel >> >> On 10/26/2011 11:11 PM, Alexander Dalloz wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I assume you are following a random tutorial on the net. Don't do that. >>> It simply does not fit. >>> >>> Instead of using a modulepath just (the proper one on CentOS would be >>> /usr/lib/openldap, as pre-defined in slapd.conf; but the backends are >>> not available as modules on CentOS), define you database properly. Where >>> you see >>> >>> database bdb >>> >>> in the slapd.conf CentOS ships with, just change bdb into hdb. >>> >>> Alexander >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> CentOS mailing list >>> CentOS at centos.org >>> http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >> _______________________________________________ >> CentOS mailing list >> CentOS at centos.org >> http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos