Hi, Openldap-2.0.x allows the slapd daemon to run as a non-root user. IMHO this is a good idea and it doesn't need major changes to get it working. Spec file should create a useraccount for slapd and ldap.init should start slapd with this account (this user also needs read access to slapd.conf and write access to /var/lib/ldap). -Jarno
Fixed this in Raw Hide a while back, but forgot to close the bug out. The slapd server now runs as user ldap, group ldap.