[Fedora-directory-users] RedHat 4/Fedora-DS - SSL Cert DB not readable?

[Richard Hesse]

> could not open file slapd-$hostname-cert8.db

Does $hostname match the slapd instance name? For example, is the path to your slapd directory /opt/fedora-ds/slapd-$hostname? Or is it slapd-$somethingelse?

-richard

-----Original Message-----
From: fedora-directory-users-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:fedora-directory-users-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Rob Crittenden
Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2007 2:31 PM
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Subject: Re: [Fedora-directory-users] RedHat 4/Fedora-DS - SSL Cert DB not readable?

Travis wrote:
> Hi,
>
> We're preparing to upgrade from the initial DS release to 1.0.4-1 on
> our
> RHEL4 servers.  In testing, we've hit a brick wall while trying to set
> up SSL.  We can install the server just fine, but when clicking on
> "Manage Certificates" in the console we get the following:
>
> could not open file slapd-$hostname-cert8.db
>
> We get the same type of error when trying to manage the admin server
> certs.
>
> This is a completely fresh install, and we've double checked file
> ownership, so permissions are not an issue.  After working on this for
> a while, I tried installing the FC6 rpm on my FC6 desktop with the
> same settings and JVM, which worked just fine...so its something
> specific about the RHEL4 version or its dependencies.
>
> I found one other post about this kind of issue (From Nov 2006 by
> Graham Leggett), but I never saw a solution.  I have even tried
> initializing the DBs by hand with certutil, but this does not appear
> to make a difference.
>
> Any advice?
>

Permissions perhaps?

rob