[Samba] Advices for Samba and OpenLDAP

Michael Gasch gasch at eva.mpg.de
Tue Jan 24 09:45:44 GMT 2006


just to close this thread:
we used to run slapd as unprivileged user (user "ldap")
this broke our setup (to bexact the database) under heavy load.
now it´s running under root permissions w/out any problems

greez

Tomasz Chmielewski wrote:
> Michael Gasch schrieb:
>>> We are running almost 30 OpenLDAP (2.2.20 nd 2.2.24) servers 
>>> (masters, slaves).
>>> No weird behaviour so far (we didn't torture it though).
>>
>> want to have my script :) ?
> 
> sure, I could test it on a separate test server.
> publish it somewhere on the web, so that all human kind could kill their 
> OpenLDAp servers :)
> 
> 
>>> We are running a ldbm backend (so it doesn't need a DB_CONFIG file).
>>
>> we had trouble with ldbm - it didn't crash but some entries simply 
>> were missing after some minutes of running slapd, samba couldn't find 
>> some users/groups although they were in the database, ldapsearch -x 
>> uid=someuser sometimes returns "dn: uid=someuser" and sometimes not 
>> and so on. may be it was a caching/indexing issue?
> 
> weird.
> IMHO, the behaviour should be proper in each case and not depend on the 
> backend used.
> 
> 
>>> In your case I'd upgrade to a newest 2.2.x version, and if the 
>>> problem still happens, ask at OpenLDAP mailing lists, as it's a 
>>> problem with OpenLDAP really, not with Samba.
>>
>> i know and already did that. but this list is good visited so i saw a 
>> chance to find someone with the same problems or more experience
> 
> and still the same issues after an upgrade?
> maybe it's something with *bdb* libraries, headers etc., on which 
> OpenLDAP depends?
> 
> 


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Michael Gasch
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