Working with LDAP

Modifying cn=config
LDAP no longer uses (by default, anyway) an slapd.conf file. Instead, it stores it's configuration in the LDAP tree itself (and also in a bunch of ldif files in /etc/ldap/slapd.d/).

You can modify the files in the directory itself, if you really want. It's not recommended.

The better way to modify the config is live: modify it in the running server itself. That's actually pretty cool.

In a default install, the following will work: