Re: problem using slapd

[Robert Horton <robh@informatics.bangor.ac.uk>]

On Tue, 2001-12-18 at 10:50, Jörg Preuß wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I am just writing my diploma thesis and I need to use ldap - I have 
> choosen openldap for serving.
How will OpenLDAP help writing a thesis ?! ... never mind...

> I tried to use the default configuration and to fill the db manually. I 
> used the java ldapbrowser from http://www.iit.edu/~gawojar/ldap. I can 
> authenticate as rootdn with the default rootpw. But I can not add any 
> entry at all.
> 
> The error code is every time '32' (parent does not exist).
> 
You may like to post the ldif file you are trying to add and your
slapd.conf file... Essentially if you are trying to add

dn: ou=foo,dc=bar,dc=com

you need to have a 

dn: dc=bar,dc=com 

somewhere (and probably set as the suffix in ths slapd.conf). you need
to add something like

dn: dc=bar,dc=com
objectclass: dcObject
objectclass: organisation
o: Test organisation


The Quick start guide on openldap.org descripes this quite well.

HTH
Rob

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