When following the steps to configure replication for the o=netscaperoot database the register-ds-admin.pl script gets stuck in a loop prompting for the credentials of the directory manager password.

I modified the examples from the links of the files to use to setup the replication for my environment. The netscaperoot database must be created before trying to initialize the second server otherwise the intialization failed.

What I did to fix this issue was to modify the register-ds-admin.pl file on line 403 so that either the suffix_already_exists or error_creating)suffix_backend would end the loop of prompting for the directory manager password.

One can reproduce this issue by trying to follow the steps from the link below.

I changed the code to the following for register-ds-admin.pl on line 403 of the files if statement to work through the issue:

Get the ConfigDS's rootDN password

print("\n==============================================================================\n");
$setup->msg('register_new_confds', $new_confdsid);
$setup->{inf}->{slapd}->{RootDNPwd} =
reg_get_passwd($setup, 'input_rootdn_passwd', $new_confdsid);

if ( ($#admConfKeys >= 0 && ($orig_confdsid ne $new_confdsid)) ||
$#admConfKeys < 0 )
{
@errs = ();
# First, let's register the Configuration Directory itself
while (!createConfigDS($setup->{inf}, \@errs))
{
foreach my $err (@errs)
{
if ( $err eq "suffix_already_exists" || "error_creating_suffix_backend" )
{
print("Error the suffix already exists \n");
goto out;
}
}
$setup->{inf}->{slapd}->{RootDNPwd} =
reg_get_passwd($setup, 'input_rootdn_passwd', $new_confdsid);
@errs = ();
}
out:
}

The steps followed were from the RHDS 9.1 documentation at this link: https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Directory_Server/9.0/html/Administration_Guide/Managing_Replication-Replicating-ADS-for-Failover.html