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Running slapd as non-root user under Debian

The README.Debian file that ships with slapd nicely explains how to run slapd under a different uid/gid. However, one might just read over the following paragraph (at least I did so in the beginning ;-):
Once you have done so, if you are using a bdb o hdb backend,
always remember to execute the chown after running utilities
such as db4.x_recover or db4.x_checkpoint.
This paragraph basically states (amongst others) that you should add a line like "chown -R ldap.ldap /var/lib/ldap" at the end of the try_fix_db() function in /etc/init.d/slapd...

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