I've been configuring OpenLDAP on RHEL 6 and its seems you have run the following to rebuild the config dirs. I'm ok with that , but my issues is , say I want to change the server passwd , do I have to go through the whole process every time I change the config ? Is there a way of changing the slapd config after its been built using the RHEL6 method ?
below is the advice I've found on the net from http://www.linuxtopia.org/online_books/rhel6/rhel_6_migration_guide/rhel_6_migration_ch07s03.html
This example assumes that the file to convert from the old slapd configuration is located at /etc/openldap/slapd.conf and the new directory for OpenLDAP configuration is located at /etc/openldap/slapd.d/. Remove the contents of the new /etc/openldap/slapd.d/ directory:
rm -rf /etc/openldap/slapd.d/*
Run slaptest to check the validity of the configuration file and specify the new configuration directory: slaptest -f /etc/openldap/slapd.conf -F /etc/openldap/slapd.d
Configure permissions on the new directory: chown -R ldap:ldap /etc/openldap/slapd.d
chmod -R 000 /etc/openldap/slapd.d
chmod -R u+rwX /etc/openldap/slapd.d
To clarify. I'm after help on how to edit the slapd configuration using the newer versions of openldap , where the config is held in a schema rather than the original slapd.conf
Those instructions are for when you are converting from an old-style
slapd.confconfiguration file to a new-styleslapd.d/*configuration directory. You only have to do this when moving your configuration. Once.Guys over at UNIX/Linux stack gave me a good answer.
https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/16092/doing-openldap-config-changes-in-rhel-6