Hello,
I just upgraded a server from FC1 to FC4 in one swell foop. I
reformatted /tmp, /var, /usr, /boot, and /, leaving /home, /opt, and
/usr/local alone. All on separate partitions and all with known good
tape backups, of course!
openldap authentication is not working. I've tried two things:
1. I had a backup.ldif file made earlier with the command
ldapsearch -x -b dc=example,dc=com \* > backup.ldif
So I tried restoring it with
ldapadd -x -W -D cn=manager,dc=example,dc=com -f backup.ldif
Which appeared to work with the messages I generally expect.
2. I simply copied all of the files from a backup of /var/lib/ldap on
the old setup to the new one.
In both cases, the command
ldapsearch -x -b dc=example,dc=com \*
returns only one entry, the root of the tree, whereas before it returned
every entry in the database. "getent passwd" also only shows the actual
entries in /etc/passwd, not the passwd entries in the LDAP database.
The passwd line in /etc/nsswitch.conf reads
passwd: files ldap
as it should.
Have I mentioned that LDAP is one of the hardest, most confusing things
in the Linux universe to get and keep working? NIS/NIS+ was a breeze by
comparison.
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