Add your basedn to basedn (eg: `echo o=denkn,c=at > basedn`). For initialization, first shutdown slapd and delete `/var/lib/ldap/` (you will loose all of your data!), then use: ./00.root.ldif.sh | slapadd -b `cat basedn` -v For adding 10 and 20 use: slapadd -b `cat basedn` -v -l 10.acls.ldif slapadd -b `cat basedn` -v -l 20.passwordhash.ldif Now you can start slapd with your fresh config. Via `ldapadd -Y EXTERNAL` you can add any other ldif. For adding an user run `./90.user.ldif.sh username givenname surname emailaddr | ldapadd -Y external`.