[midPoint] openLDAP configuration for midPoint: failing on 'Setting up Overlays' step

[Radovan Semancik]

Hi Keith,

I'm not entirely sure. I have created the slapdconf utility as one of my 
side projects mostly to speed up things that I'm doing with OpenLDAP 
frequently. I'm sure that it does not cover all the cases, but it is a 
very useful tool anyway. The OpenLDAP documentation for the OLC 
(cn=config) configuration is ... well, let's just say it has a potential 
for improvement. I have discovered the configuration objects that 
slapdconf manipulates mostly by trial and error and by googling the 
mailing lists.

The OpenLDAP instances that I use already have the 
cn=module{0},cn=config entry. I currently use OpenLDAP 2.4.42 on Ubuntu, 
but I have used wide variety of OpenLDAP versions during last couple of 
years and all of them had the cn=module{0},cn=config entry. So naturally 
I haven't ever wondered how to enable it.

Maybe the OpenLDAP mailing list is the right place where to ask this 
question? Maybe http://www.openldap.org/lists/mm/listinfo/openldap-technical

Asking for better documentation on the OpenLDAP list may put more 
pressure on OpenLDAP team to finally update the information on the 
OLC-style configuration.

If you find out that there is a bug in slapdconf I will be happy to fix it.

-- 
Radovan Semancik
Software Architect
evolveum.com



On 08/13/2016 02:12 AM, Keith Hazelton wrote:
>
> I’m following the steps on installing and configuring OpenLDAP for use 
> with midPoint that are provided at 
> https://wiki.evolveum.com/display/midPoint/OpenLDAP+Installation+and+Configuration
>
> I used yum to install OpenLDAP.
>
> At the “Setting up Overlays” step I get an error trying to add modules:
>
> midpoint#>./slapdconf add-module sssvlv
>
> Cannot find module configuration entry (olcModuleList) at ./slapdconf 
> line 844, <DATA> line 747.
>
> at ./slapdconf line 107, <DATA> line 747.
>
>      main::__ANON__('Cannot find module configuration entry 
> (olcModuleList) at ./s...') called at ./slapdconf line 844
>
>       main::addModule() called at ./slapdconf line 150
>
> It’s clear enough that there is no entry under cn=config for 
> olcModuleList so it seems my install of OpenLDAP has no support for 
> dynamic modules
>
> OpenLDAP 2.4 admin documentation includes the following
>
> 5.2.2. cn=module:  If support for dynamically loaded modules was 
> enabled when configuring slapd, cn=module entries may be used to 
> specify sets of modules to load.
>
> Did I miss a configurations step that would have enabled dynamically 
> loaded modules?
>
>          Thanks in advance for any help,   --Keith Hazelton 
> (hazelton at wisc.edu <mailto:hazelton at wisc.edu>)
>
> -- 
>
> email & jabber: keith.hazelton at wisc.edu <mailto:keith.hazelton at wisc.edu>
>
> calendar: http://go.wisc.edu/i6zxx0
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> midPoint mailing list
> midPoint at lists.evolveum.com
> http://lists.evolveum.com/mailman/listinfo/midpoint


-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <https://lists.evolveum.com/pipermail/midpoint/attachments/20160815/faef1edf/attachment.htm>