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How to fix “ldif_read_file: checksum error”
Posted on October 28, 2014	
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Well, in spite of you did read a banner saying “# AUTO-GENERATED FILE – DO NOT EDIT!! Use ldapmodify.” you ignored it and made some manual modifications in any of the LDIF files in /etc/ldap/slapd.d/.

Don’t worry it happened to me too :) When you need to quickly setup an openLDAP server for development it is pretty much easier to tweak these files although the recommended way is to use ldapmodify tool. But if you change the LDIF files in cn=config manually, their contents and checksums won’t match, which is not fatal, but is annoying when using tools such as slapcat:

liquidgecka

#!/bin/bash

usage() {
  cat << EOF
Usage: $0 [OPTION]... COMMAND
Execute the given command in a way that works safely with cron. This should
typically be used inside of a cron job definition like so:
* * * * * $(which "$0") [OPTION]... COMMAND

Arguments: