Testing LDAP related software

[Ryan Tandy]

Hello Marc,

On Fri, Sep 04, 2026 at 04:51:33PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote:
>I would have to build myself an OpenLDAP server and pre-fill it with 
>some test accounts that could be used for easy testing. I am wondering 
>whether it would be a smart idea to just put that server on a 
>dedicated, throwaway VM (with ansible recipies to easily redeploy) 
>(with LDAP and LDAPS) and to publish a read-only LDAP account and the 
>relevant data of the directory contents (passwords etc).
>
>That way, everybody working on sssd and other LDAP-related software 
>could easily use that server as a reference server to test their 
>software without having to deploy their own server.

 From my perspective, standing up and populating a local slapd is a quick 
job for a script and I don't really see a need to keep a persistent  
instance running. Several packages (including sssd!) already run slapd 
in their autopkgtests.

I know configuring slapd and populating data can look like a daunting 
task if you aren't familiar with it. If you need any help or 
explanation, you are welcome to post here, or on 
openldap-technical at openldap.org. You can also find examples of supported 
configurations in slapd's test suite.

Thanks
Ryan