Month: January 2013

  • ldapmodify fails with “Server is unwilling to perform (53)”

    I recently ran into an issue when setting up a new LDAP directory using OpenLDAP 2.4.23 on Mac OSX. The issue was that I would get the following error when attempting to modify any entry in the directory: modifying entry “olcDatabase={1}bdb,cn=config” ldap_modify: Server is unwilling to perform (53) additional info: shadow context; no update referral […]