OpenLDAP - where is my slapd.conf?

Solution 1:

You will need to use the new cn=config configuration method, where the LDAP server will be configured via a separate data tree in the directory (which is usually represented as LDIF files under /etc/ldap/slapd.d.

Solution 2:

OpenLDAP uses a separate directory which contains the cn=config Directory Information Tree (DIT) (formerly slapd.conf). The cn=config DIT is used to dynamically configure the slapd daemon, allowing the modification of schema definitions, indexes, ACLs, etc without stopping the service.

See: https://help.ubuntu.com/10.04/serverguide/C/openldap-server.html and http://www.zytrax.com/books/ldap/ch6/slapd-config.html