[389-users] dirsrv won't start

[Doug Tucker]

I didn't change any file.  I right clicked on the Users cn and set a 
password policy and it killed it and I can't figure out how to undo it 
since it won't start.

Sincerely,

Doug Tucker

On 01/11/2013 11:06 AM, Chandan Kumar wrote:
> You may not need to re-install it. If you could just replace the file 
> that you changed, I hope you took a backup before experimenting with 
> the file. Same thing happened with me too, I restored the directory 
> server from the bakcup files.
>
> On Friday, January 11, 2013, Doug Tucker wrote:
>
>     Well, I give up.  I can find nothing in the docs or on google to
>     get me around this.  I'm see no way other than to uninstall 389
>     and reinstall from scatch so no need to respond to this.
>
>     Sincerely,
>
>     Doug Tucker
>
>     On 01/10/2013 11:19 AM, Doug Tucker wrote:
>
>         So I've gone from bad to worse.  Googling and googling and no
>         response on my auth issue from the list yesterday, I coudn't
>         stand doing nothing.  The only thing I saw that made me
>         curious was some thread where a guy could not auth and he
>         changed the password hash to something else and it worked.  I
>         looked at our current password hash in openldap and it was
>         ssha.  For the life of me I could not find how to see what the
>         current one was in 389.  The only thing I could find in the
>         docs was how to set a password policy which allowed you to set
>         the hash.  So I did so according to the documentation on the
>         Users cn.  The only thing I did was turn it on, and make sure
>         password hash was set to ssha. I left the rest default which
>         was no expiration, etc.  I saved, and tried to restart
>         according to the docs, it woudn't restart.  I shut down with
>         the init script instead, and tried to start, and now I get this:
>
>         [root at lyleauth1 schema]# /etc/init.d/dirsrv start
>         Starting dirsrv:
>             lyleauth1...[09/Jan/2013:16:23:05 -0600] dse_read_one_file
>         - The entry cn=schema in file
>         /etc/dirsrv/slapd-lyleauth1/schema/99user.ldif (lineno: 1) is
>         invalid, error code 21 (Invalid syntax) - attribute type
>         olcOverlay: Missing parent attribute syntax OID
>         [09/Jan/2013:16:23:05 -0600] dse - Please edit the file to
>         correct the reported problems and then restart the server.
>         [FAILED]
>           *** Warning: 1 instance(s) failed to start
>
>         Looking at the time stamp on that file, it is: Dec 20 16:36
>         99user.ldif .  So what I did yesterday did not touch it.
>          Anyone have any idea how to fix this?
>
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