Openldap-backend for samba4 big problems

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Thu, 2009-05-07 at 01:30 -0700, grimstone wrote:
> Hello,
> 
>  succesfully did provision-backend openldap and when I start
>  
>  /usr/local/libexec/slapd -d -1 -f /usr/local/samba/private/ldap/slapd.conf
> -h ldapi://%2Fusr%2Flocal%2Fsamba%2Fprivate%2Fldap%2Fldapi

> Weird thing is that if I try sto start:
> 
> /usr/local/libexec/slapd -d -1 -f 
> /root/thedor/source/samba-4.0.0alpha7/source4/st/provision/openldap-backend/private/ldap/slapd.conf
> -h ldapi://%2Fusr%2Flocal%2Fsamba%2Fprivate%2Fldap%2Fldapi
> 
> All is ok, slapd starts ....

That is because
the /root/thedor/source/samba-4.0.0alpha7/source4/st/provision/openldap-backend/private/ldap/modules.conf file contains the 'right' magic for your system to find the modules it needs.  On systems where slapd has all the modules already compiled into it, this is not needed.  Otherwise, it must include the lines you see there.

> I think there is a problem in the provision-backend script.
> If anyoane has any ideea or sugestion please help because I've been in this
> problem for about 2 weeks now.

The problem could be addressed in two ways:

One is, as I have suggested on this list in the past:  We could run the
code currently found in selftest/target/Samba4.pm:249 as part of
'provision-backend'.  

The other is to suggest that users run OpenLDAP from CVS (or OpenLDAP
2.4.17 when released) which will load the modules automatically. 

Note that there is a known issue at the moment that the OpenLDAP slapd
can hang after the provision, and during 'make test'.  I think it's an
OpenLDAP bug, and Howard Chu is looking into it.  

Andrew Bartlett

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Andrew Bartlett
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Authentication Developer, Samba Team           http://samba.org
Samba Developer, Red Hat Inc.
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