Openldap administration

Outline common openldap administration tasks, including reindexing, changing schema, etc., to make everyone have a quick reference.

• Changing schema

  > ldapadd -x -H ldap:/// -D "cn=Mangaer,cn=config" -W -f .ldif
   Enter LDAP Password: 
   adding new entry "cn=,cn=schema,cn=config"
  

  Schema will get change on the fly without restart the daemon.

• Re-indexing

  > ldapmodify -x -h xxx.xxx.xx -D 'cn=Manager,cn=config' -w fdsafsdfs
  dn: olcDatabase={1}bdb,cn=config
  changetype: modify
  add: olcDbIndex: cn pres,eq,sub
  

  Shutdown the slapd and

  > slapindex -v -F /usr/local/openldap/etc/openldap/slapd.d
  

• Control logging

  > ldapmodify -h localhost -D 'cn=Manager,cn=config' -w newborn -x
  dn: cn=config
  changetype: modify
  add: olcloglevel
  olcloglevel: 256 128