Making changes to the slapd configuration with ldapvi
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We store the configuration in the cn=config LDAP database.
DO NOT edit directly the files in /etc/ldap/slap.d !!! This is the backend for "cn=config".
Changes to the cn=config database can be made with any ldap tool, included ldapvi.
The procedure is the same used to make changes to normal LDAP databases: ChangeuserNameLDAP, only run ldapvi (as root) as follows:
ldapvi -Y EXTERNAL -h ldapi:/// -b 'cn=config'
(this uses the default Debian configuration: the system root user has admin permissions on cn=config)