Topic: LDAP questions

[Abe Loveless]

Where can I go to find out how the LDAP system works?  As far as I know, my ldap service is running fine... at least the service is.

But, I get the following errors in /var/log/messages when I update the Directory settings from the server-manager.

Aug 22 14:12:54 PE2650 slapd[3899]: conn=4 op=181 MOD dn="uid=blathrop,dc=lth5,dc=k12,dc=il,dc=us"
Aug 22 14:12:54 PE2650 slapd[3899]: conn=4 op=181 RESULT tag=103 err=32 text=
Aug 22 14:12:54 PE2650 e-smith[10233]: failed to modify entry for uid=blathrop,dc=lth5,dc=k12,dc=il,dc=us: No such object at /etc/e-smith/events/ldap-update/S80ldap-update line 153.
Aug 22 14:12:54 PE2650 slapd[5685]: conn=4 op=182 MOD dn="uid=blavite,dc=lth5,dc=k12,dc=il,dc=us"
Aug 22 14:12:54 PE2650 slapd[5685]: conn=4 op=182 RESULT tag=103 err=32 text=
Aug 22 14:12:54 PE2650 e-smith[10233]: failed to modify entry for uid=blavite,dc=lth5,dc=k12,dc=il,dc=us: No such object at /etc/e-smith/events/ldap-update/S80ldap-update line 153.
Aug 22 14:12:54 PE2650 slapd[3899]: conn=4 op=183 MOD dn="uid=blipe,dc=lth5,dc=k12,dc=il,dc=us"
Aug 22 14:12:54 PE2650 slapd[3899]: conn=4 op=183 RESULT tag=103 err=32 text=
Aug 22 14:12:54 PE2650 e-smith[10233]: failed to modify entry for uid=blipe,dc=lth5,dc=k12,dc=il,dc=us: No such object at /etc/e-smith/events/ldap-update/S80ldap-update line 153.


I've looked at S80ldap-update line 153, but all it does is report the output, I think:
        $result->code &&
            warn "failed to modify entry for $dn: ", $result->error ;

What started this search is that I can't see any of my users in the Local LDAP search of turba (the webmail addressbook).


Any thoughts???

[Bill Kampmeyer]

Mr. Loveless, the errors and symptoms you describe are similar to a problem I had soon after I changed the domain name of my server.  Familiar I hope?  I found a solution in bug ID 99 at
http://www.e-smith.org/bugs/index.php3?op=showBug&bugID=99 copied below.
---------------------------------
Problem: The LDAP server is not correctly reconfigured after changing the domain name from the console. This causes failures in webmail and other applications which access the LDAP database.
Workaround: # stop ldap
/etc/rc.d/init.d/ldap stop

# remove old ldap data
rm /home/e-smith/db/ldap/*ldif
rm /var/lib/ldap/*

# rebuild directory from scratch
/etc/e-smith/events/actions/ldap-rebuild

# start ldap
/etc/rc.d/init.d/ldap start
----------------------------------------------

Enjoy your work at
http://www.tech-geeks.org/contrib/loveless/
Good fortune. Love this fine server!

BK

[Abe Loveless]

BK saves the day again!!

And, unless I'm mistaken, this little problem is going to resolve part of another issue that I've been having with add/delete users.

Thanks for pointing me in the right direction!

[Guck Puppy]

BK wrote:
>Love this server.

Love this forum! Imagine trying to do such good things without it...

[andrej]

Hello LDAP geeks !

I want to authenticate my RH9 client using LDAP authentication, Have anybody tried this before ?! Do you have any experiencies doing this? What info is stored in LDAP (e-smit sheme of course)

Tx,

Andrej

[Maggard]

andrej wrote:

> I want to authenticate my RH9 client using LDAP
> authentication, Have anybody tried this before ?! Do you have
> any experiencies doing this? What info is stored in LDAP
> (e-smit sheme of course)

Was there anything a search of these phorums (set to go back further then 30 days) didn't answer?

[ergozd]

To BK

Hi there!

I followed your solution step by step and got

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[root@erginsme04 root]# /etc/e-smith/events/actions/ldap-rebuild
slapadd: could not parse entry (line=16)
slapadd exited 256 at /etc/e-smith/events/actions/ldap-rebuild line 114.

What do I do? (I have SME6.0 final)

Best rgds, Ergin

[Franco]

Unfortunatelly the rebuild process does not recreate the users, is there anyway for me to do that without having to re-install the server? Even new added users do not become part of the .ldif file.
The only thing writen to the file is the object Organization.
All the files under /var/lib/ldap/ are also created.
My log messages only complain about an issue with IPV6 protocol not linking, but I found it's irrelevant.
I installed the phpldapadmin package and it would be much easier if I could import the information there. But where is it at?
Any other tricks to get this going?
BTW: I started with a hostname and then replaced to the new one, and that's the reason why it broke.
Thanks,

[CharlieBrady]

I followed your solution step by step and got

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[root@erginsme04 root]# /etc/e-smith/events/actions/ldap-rebuild
slapadd: could not parse entry (line=16)
slapadd exited 256 at /etc/e-smith/events/actions/ldap-rebuild line 114.

What do I do? (I have SME6.0 final)

If you have followed the howto, and still have a problem, there is a bug. Please report it to the bug tracker.

[ergozd]

Hi Charlie!

This was approx 10 months ago, if my memory does not fool me I was going to try use LDAP for several logins (I think Metadot was one of them)...

Anyway, I think there was a bug reported for this, I will check how it looks and drop a few lines to bug tracker.

[Franco]

I actually went ahead and created a bug as well, just so you kow!

Regards,

[larsk]

Hi all,

i've followed the same steps and encountered the same message. In my case, there was a special character (u-umlaut or trema) used in a name.

Cheers,

Lars