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Recently, I found the following error message when updating my FreeBSD system regarding to the OpenLDAP:<\/p>\n
\r\n===> Installing for openldap-client-2.4.31\r\n===> Generating temporary packing list\r\n===> Checking if net\/openldap24-client already installed\r\n===> Creating users and\/or groups.\r\nUsing existing group `ldap'.\r\nCreating user `ldap' with uid `389'.\r\npw: user 'ldap' already exists\r\n*** Error code 74\r\n\r\nStop in \/usr\/ports\/net\/openldap24-client.\r\n*** Error code 1\r\n\r\nStop in \/usr\/ports\/net\/openldap24-client.\r\n<\/pre>\nAnd I don’t use LDAP in particular, however it affects other applications that use LDAP, e.g., PHP<\/p>\n
\r\nphp -v\r\nPHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library '\/usr\/local\/lib\/php\/20090626\/ldap.so' - Shared object \"libldap-2.4.so.8\" not found, required by \"ldap.so\" in Unknown on line 0\r\nPHP 5.3.10 with Suhosin-Patch (cli) (built: Feb 14 2012 16:59:15)\r\nCopyright (c) 1997-2012 The PHP Group\r\nZend Engine v2.3.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2012 Zend Technologies\r\n with eAccelerator v0.9.6.1, Copyright (c) 2004-2010 eAccelerator, by eAccelerator\r\n<\/pre>\nIt is very simple to solve this problem. All you need is to remove the user ‘ldap’, and install the port again. First, let’s remove the user ‘ldap’ first:<\/p>\n
\r\nsudo vipw\r\n<\/pre>\nYou will see this line:<\/p>\n
\r\nldap:*:389:389::0:0:OpenLDAP Server:\/nonexistent:\/usr\/sbin\/nologin\r\n<\/pre>\nRemove the line by pressing ‘dd’, hit ‘ESC’ button, and then press ‘:wq’ to save the file and quit the editor.<\/p>\n
After that, let’s clean the port and run the update again:<\/p>\n
\r\ncd \/usr\/ports\/net\/openldap24-client\r\nsudo make clean\r\nsudo make install clean\r\n<\/pre>\nThat’s it. Your LDAP will be happy and your applications (such as PHP) will not complain.<\/p>\n
\n–Derrick<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"