I am following the howto on

https://linuxhostsupport.com/blog/how-to-install-ldap-on-CentOS-7/

which matches a number of other howto’s.

I have tried this on two CentOS 7 boxes and both fail in the same way when trying to set the certificates. I have tried without success.  I found that by adding ‘-d 1’ you enable debugging, but the debugging did not help.

Anyone got any suggestions?  All steps prior to this worked successfully.

Gary

[root@eddie ldap]# ldapmodify -Y EXTERNAL -H ldapi:/// -f certs.ldif SASL/EXTERNAL authentication started SASL username: gidNumber=0+uidNumber=0,cn=peercred,cn=external,cn=auth SASL SSF: 0
modifying entry “cn=config”
ldap_modify: Other (e.g., implementation specific) error (80)

[root@eddie ldap]# cat certs.ldif dn: cn=config changetype: modify replace: olcTLSCertificateFile olcTLSCertificateFile: /etc/openLDAP/certs/myldap.ringways.com.cert

dn: cn=config changetype: modify replace: olcTLSCertificateKeyFile olcTLSCertificateKeyFile: /etc/openLDAP/certs/myldap.ringways.com.key
[root@eddie ldap]# ll /etc/openLDAP/certs/
total 72
-rw-r–r–. 1 ldap ldap 65536 Sep 30 11:19 cert8.db
-rw-r–r–. 1 ldap ldap 16384 Sep 30 11:19 key3.db
-rw-r–r–. 1 ldap ldap  1493 Sep 30 12:16 myldap.ringways.com.cert
-rw-r–r–. 1 ldap ldap  1704 Sep 30 12:16 myldap.ringways.com.key
-r–r—–. 1 ldap ldap    45 Jul 29  2020 password
-rw-r–r–. 1 ldap ldap 16384 Jul 29  2020 secmod.db
[root@eddie ldap]#