I have just installed Openldap on Xubuntu. The slapd daemon is working and I can easily stop and start it. Nevertheless when I run a test for the configuration file slapd.conf as follows:
slapdtest -v -f /etc/ldap/slapd.conf
I get the following error:
5166a149 /etc/ldap/slapd.conf: line 67: invalid path: Permission denied
slaptest: bad configuration file!
/etc/ldap/slapd.conf: line 67 is:
directory "var/lib/ldap"
I don't know if there is a probmlem with the files access rights in that directory because it keeps saying that the path is invalid:
reza@testserver:/etc/ldap$ ls -l /var/lib/ldap/*
-rw-r--r-- 1 openldap openldap 2048 Apr 11 11:15 /var/lib/ldap/alock
-rw------- 1 openldap openldap 24576 Apr 11 11:15 /var/lib/ldap/__db.001
-rw------- 1 openldap openldap 344064 Apr 11 13:45 /var/lib/ldap/__db.002
-rw------- 1 openldap openldap 2629632 Apr 11 11:15 /var/lib/ldap/__db.003
-rw------- 1 openldap openldap 163840 Apr 11 11:45 /var/lib/ldap/__db.004
-rw------- 1 openldap openldap 909312 Apr 11 11:15 /var/lib/ldap/__db.005
-rw------- 1 openldap openldap 32768 Apr 11 11:45 /var/lib/ldap/__db.006
-rw-r--r-- 1 openldap openldap 96 Apr 10 17:14 /var/lib/ldap/DB_CONFIG
-rw------- 1 openldap openldap 8192 Apr 10 17:14 /var/lib/ldap/dn2id.bdb
-rw------- 1 openldap openldap 32768 Apr 10 17:14 /var/lib/ldap/id2entry.bdb
-rw------- 1 openldap openldap 10485760 Apr 11 11:45 /var/lib/ldap/log.0000000001
-rw------- 1 openldap openldap 8192 Apr 10 17:14 /var/lib/ldap/objectClass.bdb
The server is XUbuntu 12.4.
Best Answer
You're missing the first slash in the directory name:
should be