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List:       openldap-software
Subject:    Re: password backend
From:       Albert Steiner <a-steiner () northwestern ! edu>
Date:       2000-05-30 19:53:46
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Try suffix o=edu

Look at trace to see exactly what it is doing, but when I looked for a shell backend, \
the password came in something like abcd user@nwu.edu.  The suffix is literally the \
last characters in the input line.

At 02:06 PM 5/30/00 -0400, Andrew Miles wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> 
> I'm starting the process of setting up LDAP, and would like to use 
> the password backend.  However, I'm finding that with the slapd.conf 
> specifying a password backend, as of:
> 
> database   passwd
> suffix o=passwd
> 
> in the slapd.conf file, the slapd process won't start.   If I remove 
> the password and use the default lbdm backend instead, the process 
> starts just fine.
> 
> I read that the default for the LDAP install includes support for all 
> three backends;  shell, ldbm, and passwd.  Is this correct? As I 
> didn't specify anything one way or the other during the configuration.
> 
> Could it be that something is wrong with the passwd file itself?  We 
> are using shadow passwords on a Linux machine (Mandrake), but other 
> than that, it seems like a normal /etc/passwd file.
> 
> If anyone has any ideas as to how to get this passwd backend working 
> that would be great!
> 
> 
> 
> Also, I haven't learned the in's and out's of setting up a ldbm 
> database yet, is there any examples of a basic setup out there, 
> including a persons name, phone# and email?   The man pages and Quick 
> Start Guide aren't so clear.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Andrew
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