Openldap replication setup and useful ldap commands
Openldap is popular opensource directory service. This tutorial will setup replication feature of Openldap with two servers. At LDAP1 Edit /etc/openldap/slapd.conf suffix "o=cloudtalents.info,o=asp" rootdn "o=cloudtalents.info,o=asp" rootpw secret loglevel 4095 Replica host=sandbox2:389 suffix="o=cloudtalents.info,o=asp" binddn="o=cloudtalents.info,o=asp" bindmethod=simple credentials=secret replogfile /var/log/replogfile At LDAP2 Edit /etc/openldap/slapd.conf suffix "o=cloudtalents.info,o=asp" rootdn "o=cloudtalents.info,o=asp" rootpw secret updatedn o=cloudtalents.info,o=asp updateref ldap://sandbox1 Start ldap service and check the directory tree. ldapsearch -x -b "o=cloudtalents.info,o=asp" "(objectclass=*)" You may import the backup ldiff file ldapadd -D "o=cloudtalents.info,o=asp" -W -x -f backup