Bug#378832: [Pkg-openldap-devel] Bug#378832: limits directive is not working in slapd.conf

Wed Jul 19 19:14:41 UTC 2006

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Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote:
>> Package: slapd
>> Version: 2.3.24-1
>> Severity: important
>>
>> Hi
>>
>> I have tried using
>>
>> limits users size=1000
>>
>> but when I try to ldapsearch I get an error 4 size limit.
>>
>> when I change it to
>>
>> sizelimit 1000
>>
>> and retry the ldapsearch it works.  I don't want to open up the limits
>> to every on
>>
> 
I've tested this and I can confirm that it doesn't work for me too.
Where did you place the limits directive in the configuration ?

> I would suggest sending OpenLDAP usage questions to
> openldap-software at openldap.org.
> 
> I will note that the limits command works just fine for me in the areas
> I use it, for example:
> 
> # Let the ispace prinicpal have a search of 5000 entries
> limits dn.exact="cn=abcd,cn=Service,cn=Applications,dc=stanford,dc=edu"
> time.soft=unlimited time.hard=unlimited size.soft=5000 size.hard=5000
> 
I've tried this example on a freshly install of slapd but I still can't
get that to work. Do you have some pointers to get some more information
about the parameter.

I tried this:
limits users time.soft=unlimited time.hard=unlimited size.soft=1 size.hard=1
limits anonymous time.soft=unlimited time.hard=unlimited size.soft=1
size.hard=1
limits dn.exact="cn=test,dc=cacholong,dc=nl" time.soft=unlimited
time.hard=unlimited size.soft=1 size.hard=1

Running slapd -d 64 shows that the configuration file is ok. And that
the directive is allowed there.

But neither of these example work for me... probably I have a stupid
thingie in the configuration file but I couldn't find it. Attached my
slapd.conf.
> 
> --Quanah

Regards,

Matthijs Mohlmann

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# This is the main slapd configuration file. See slapd.conf(5) for more
# info on the configuration options.

#######################################################################
# Global Directives:

# Features to permit
#allow bind_v2

# Schema and objectClass definitions
include         /etc/ldap/schema/core.schema
include         /etc/ldap/schema/cosine.schema
include         /etc/ldap/schema/nis.schema
include         /etc/ldap/schema/inetorgperson.schema

# Schema check allows for forcing entries to
# match schemas for their objectClasses's
schemacheck     on

# Where the pid file is put. The init.d script
# will not stop the server if you change this.
pidfile         /var/run/slapd/slapd.pid

# List of arguments that were passed to the server
argsfile        /var/run/slapd.args

# Read slapd.conf(5) for possible values
loglevel        0

# Where the dynamically loaded modules are stored
modulepath	/usr/lib/ldap
moduleload	back_bdb

# The maximum number of entries that is returned for a search operation
sizelimit 500

# The tool-threads parameter sets the actual amount of cpu's that is used
# for indexing.
tool-threads 1

# Limits
limits dn.exact="cn=test,dc=cacholong,dc=nl" time.hard=unlimited time.soft=unlimited size.hard=1 size.soft=1

#######################################################################
# Specific Backend Directives for bdb:
# Backend specific directives apply to this backend until another
# 'backend' directive occurs
backend		bdb
checkpoint 512 30

#######################################################################
# Specific Backend Directives for 'other':
# Backend specific directives apply to this backend until another
# 'backend' directive occurs
#backend		<other>

#######################################################################
# Specific Directives for database #1, of type bdb:
# Database specific directives apply to this databasse until another
# 'database' directive occurs
database        bdb

# The base of your directory in database #1
suffix          "dc=cacholong,dc=nl"

# Where the database file are physically stored for database #1
directory       "/var/lib/ldap"

# For the Debian package we use 2MB as default but be sure to update this
# value if you have plenty of RAM
dbconfig set_cachesize 0 2097152 0

# Sven Hartge reported that he had to set this value incredibly high
# to get slapd running at all. See http://bugs.debian.org/303057
# for more information.

# Number of objects that can be locked at the same time.
dbconfig set_lk_max_objects 1500
# Number of locks (both requested and granted)
dbconfig set_lk_max_locks 1500
# Number of lockers
dbconfig set_lk_max_lockers 1500

# Indexing options for database #1
index           objectClass eq

# Save the time that the entry gets modified, for database #1
lastmod         on

# Where to store the replica logs for database #1
# replogfile	/var/lib/ldap/replog

# The userPassword by default can be changed
# by the entry owning it if they are authenticated.
# Others should not be able to see it, except the
# admin entry below
# These access lines apply to database #1 only
access to attrs=userPassword
        by dn="cn=admin,dc=cacholong,dc=nl" write
        by anonymous auth
        by self write
        by * none

# Ensure read access to the base for things like
# supportedSASLMechanisms.  Without this you may
# have problems with SASL not knowing what
# mechanisms are available and the like.
# Note that this is covered by the 'access to *'
# ACL below too but if you change that as people
# are wont to do you'll still need this if you
# want SASL (and possible other things) to work 
# happily.
access to dn.base="" by * read

# The admin dn has full write access, everyone else
# can read everything.
access to *
        by dn="cn=admin,dc=cacholong,dc=nl" write
        by * read

# For Netscape Roaming support, each user gets a roaming
# profile for which they have write access to
#access to dn=".*,ou=Roaming,o=morsnet"
#        by dn="cn=admin,dc=cacholong,dc=nl" write
#        by dnattr=owner write

#######################################################################
# Specific Directives for database #2, of type 'other' (can be bdb too):
# Database specific directives apply to this databasse until another
# 'database' directive occurs
#database        <other>

# The base of your directory for database #2
#suffix		"dc=debian,dc=org"