On May 1, 2012, at 4:05 PM, Timothy Murphy wrote: > Giles Coochey wrote: > >>> So I have copied /etc/openldap/slapd.conf from the old server to the new >>> and also copied the old DB_CONFIG to /var/lib/ldap >>> (these files are not used under CentOS-6, as far as I can see), >>> and run >>> >> Under Centos 6.2 openldap uses the new cn=config configuration >> mechanism, and will ignore your slapd.conf configuration if that >> mechnism already exists. > > Thanks for your response. > I know the default config is as you say, but I gave the command > ----------------------------------- > [root at grover ldap]# slapadd -f /tmp/slapd.conf -l /tmp/ldif > bdb_monitor_db_open: monitoring disabled; configure monitor database to > enable > -#################### 100.00% eta none elapsed 26s spd 4.8 > k/s > Closing DB... > ----------------------------------- > I'm pretty sure the file slapd.conf was read by the program, > as the outcome was different. > >> Try backing up and removing that folder, then your slapd.conf >> configuration will actually be read. > > I'll try that, > But have you actually migrated an openLDAP setup from CentOS 5 to 6? ----- as I understand it (and I have been doing new installs with Ubuntu and not CentOS 6), CentOS 6 uses the dynamic config methodology thereby rendering slapd.conf and the previous methods for configuring ldap useless & down the self-defeating path. The way to 'migrate' isn't that complicated - you need to do a slapcat of your previous (CentOS 5) openldap server into a file. Then you need to set up the base configuration and database via the dynamic configuration methodology. I can point you to the methodology for Ubuntu - https://help.ubuntu.com/10.04/serverguide/openldap-server.html and the process on CentOS would almost be the same with the exceptions being the software packages have different names on CentOS and the configuration data would be in /etc/openldap on CentOS and in /etc/ldap in Ubuntu. I suspect that someone has documented a similar guide for CentOS but I don't know where. Craig