Comment 11 for bug 355400

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Adam Sommer (asommer) wrote : Re: [Bug 355400] Re: OpenLDAP doc page is horrible

Hello,

On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 9:42 AM, Matt Burkhardt <email address hidden>wrote:

> After almost a full week - I've discovered a few of the things that are
> wrong with the documentation.
>
> First, it talks about using the cn=config tree which is NOT
> automagically created for you with the installation. You need to go to
> http://www.zytrax.com/books/ldap/ch6/slapd-config.html to create and
> populate the tree. It's been available since openLDAP 2.3 and should be
> used for that
>

Which Ubuntu release are you using? Since Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid) OpenLDAP
has been configured to use the cn=config configuration scheme. If you are
using Ubuntu 8.04 LTS (Hardy) OpenLDAP still uses the slapd.conf file for
configuration.

Can you post some specific errors you are having?

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Party On,
Adam