Hello William, > Can you re-run with 'dsconf -v <other options>"? dsconf should be able to > work remotely. This is the output on "manage" host: [root@manage ~]# dsconf -v -D "cn=Directory Manager" -w password ldap://tst3.example.com:389 backend config get DEBUG: The 389 Directory Server Configuration Tool DEBUG: Inspired by works of: ITS, The University of Adelaide DEBUG: dsrc path: /root/.dsrc DEBUG: dsrc container path: /data/config/container.inf DEBUG: dsrc instances: [] DEBUG: dsrc no such section: slapd-ldap://tst3.example.com:389 DEBUG: Called with: Namespace(basedn=None, binddn='cn=Directory Manager', bindpw='password', func=<function db_config_get at 0x7f5342b921e0>, instance='ldap://tst3.example.com:389', json=False, prompt=False, pwdfile=None, starttls=False, verbose=True) DEBUG: Instance details: {'uri': 'ldap://tst3.example.com:389', 'basedn': None, 'binddn': 'cn=Directory Manager', 'bindpw': None, 'saslmech': None, 'tls_cacertdir': None, 'tls_cert': None, 'tls_key': None, 'tls_reqcert': 1, 'starttls': False, 'prompt': False, 'pwdfile': None, 'args': {'ldapurl': 'ldap://tst3.example.com:389', 'root-dn': 'cn=Directory Manager'}} DEBUG: SER_SERVERID_PROP not provided, assuming non-local instance DEBUG: Allocate <class 'lib389.DirSrv'> with ldap://tst3.example.com:389 DEBUG: Allocate <class 'lib389.DirSrv'> with manage.example.com:389 DEBUG: Allocate <class 'lib389.DirSrv'> with manage.example.com:389 DEBUG: SER_SERVERID_PROP not provided, assuming non-local instance DEBUG: Allocate <class 'lib389.DirSrv'> with ldap://tst3.example.com:389 DEBUG: Allocate <class 'lib389.DirSrv'> with manage.example.com:389 DEBUG: Allocate <class 'lib389.DirSrv'> with manage.example.com:389 DEBUG: open(): Connecting to uri ldap://tst3.example.com:389 DEBUG: defaults.inf not found in any well known location! Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/sbin/dsconf", line 133, in <module> inst = connect_instance(dsrc_inst=dsrc_inst, verbose=args.verbose, args=args) File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/lib389/cli_base/__init__.py", line 152, in connect_instance starttls=dsrc_inst['starttls'], connOnly=True) File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/lib389/__init__.py", line 998, in open certdir = self.get_cert_dir() File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/lib389/__init__.py", line 1677, in get_cert_dir return self.ds_paths.cert_dir File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/lib389/paths.py", line 156, in __getattr__ self._read_defaults() File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/lib389/paths.py", line 136, in _read_defaults spath = self._get_defaults_loc(DEFAULTS_PATH) File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/lib389/paths.py", line 133, in _get_defaults_loc raise IOError('defaults.inf not found in any well known location!') OSError: defaults.inf not found in any well known location! ERROR: Error: defaults.inf not found in any well known location! If I add /usr/share/dirsrv/inf/defaults.inf myself, then dsconf works remotely very fine. > What version of 389-ds are you using as well? And on what distro? On manage machine I installed 1.4.3.8-6. On remote hosts where run 389ds too, the version is 1.4.3.13-1 > I'd like to check your version, but it should work, so this sounds like either a bug > in lib389 (requesting paths when not available) or a packaging issues. > > > Since you are already using python, you could more easily just use lib389 directly rather > than subprocess to dsconf btw: > > > from lib389 import DirSrv > import logging [...] > dsconfig.set('nsslapd-port', '389') > > There is a lot more you can do too, but this seems much more preferrable to shelling out. Wow, thank you very much for this example!! I found official lib389 docs, but I missed a complete example. I don't use the subprocess "shell" yet, but calling the api directly is of course better! I will try. Thank you very much for these hints! Kind Regards Marco _______________________________________________ 389-users mailing list -- 389-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to 389-users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/389-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx