13.8. Upgrading to OpenLDAP Version 2.0
In OpenLDAP Version 2.0, the on-disk storage format used by the
slapd LDAP server has changed. If you are upgrading
LDAP from Red Hat Linux 7.0 or earlier, you will need to extract the existing
LDAP directories to an LDIF file using the following command:
In the above command, change
<ldif_file> to the name of the output
file. Next type the following command to import this file into OpenLDAP
2.0:
 | Important |
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| | You must be the root user to use
/usr/sbin/slapadd. However, the directory server
runs as the ldap user. Therefore the directory
server will not be able to modify any files created by
slapadd. To correct this issue, after you have
finished using slapadd, type the following
command:
chown -R ldap /var/lib/ldap |
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