[Pkg-openldap-devel] Bug#628825: slapd: Failure to continue with authentication as configured.

[Steve Langasek]

tags 628825 moreinfo
thanks

On Wed, Jun 01, 2011 at 09:09:00AM -0700, Ray Klassen wrote:
> Package: slapd
> Version: 2.4.23-7
> Severity: important

> Firewalled system depending on anonymous bind to a local replicated copy
> of the ldap database.  After update to squeeze that functionality is
> removed.  No warning given, and no documentation on a simple way to
> restore it.

I'm afraid this description is far too vague to let us fix this issue for
you.  What, *exactly*, was the configuration you had in place in slapd.conf
that was silently dropped instead of being migrated?

> Don't want to have passwords littered through configuration files.  If
> you're going to enforce a funky new configuration mechanism.  (cn=config)
> you can at least replicate the actual configuration.

I realize you're frustrated at running into this problem, but this
disparaging attitude doesn't help anyone fix your bug.  The "funky" new
configuration mechanism is required in order to address a number of
longstanding bugs and issues with openldap, and it is the only configuration
mechanism that will be supported upstream in the future.  It is also, until
now, not reported to have any other problems automatically migrating
configuration from an existing slapd.conf, so we'll need some more details
to be able to isolate the bug you're describing.

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