Re: Newbie Question on Account creation

["Kurt D. Zeilenga" <Kurt@OpenLDAP.org>]

At 09:01 AM 10/27/2004, Bruno Di Rei Araujo wrote:
>I've installed OpenLDAP 2.2.17 for the very first time and I'm trying, now,
>to populate its database with my some accounts.
>What I really want is to switch from my /etc/shadow login to LDAP based one.
>I never worked with LDAP, so I have a slightly idea of what I should do.
>Anyway, I'm stuck in user creation stage, doing the following:
>
>        [root@srvoracle root]# ldapadd -x -D
>"cn=Manager,dc=calu,dc=com,dc=br" -W -f /root/brunoa.ldif
>        Enter LDAP Password:
>        adding new entry "userid=brunoa,ou=usuarios,dc=calu,dc=com,dc=br"
>        ldap_add: Invalid syntax (21)
>                additional info: objectClass: value #0 invalid per syntax

See http://www.openldap.org/faq/index.cgi?file=648 for common
reasons why this error is returned.

>        
>        [root@srvoracle root]#
>
>My ldif contents as follows:
>
>        [root@srvoracle root]# cat brunoa.ldif
>        dn: userid=brunoa,ou=usuarios,dc=calu,dc=com,dc=br
>        userid: brunoa
>        uid: brunoa
>        cn: Bruno Araujo
>        objectClass: posixAccount
>        objectClass: account
>        objectClass: top
>        userPassword: {MD5}4QrcOUm6Wau+VuBX8g+IPg==
>        uidNumber: 12706
>        gidNumber: 0
>        homeDirectory: 7
>
>And my slapd.conf is as follows:
>
>        [root@srvoracle root]# cat /usr/local/etc/openldap/slapd.conf | grep
>-v ^#
>        include         /usr/local/etc/openldap/schema/core.schema
>        pidfile         /usr/local/var/run/slapd.pid
>        argsfile        /usr/local/var/run/slapd.args
>        database        bdb
>        suffix          "dc=calu,dc=com,dc=br"
>        rootdn          "cn=Manager,dc=calu,dc=com,dc=br"
>        rootpw          secret
>        directory       /usr/local/var/openldap-data
>        index   objectClass     eq
>
>I've added the first DN as follows:
>
>        [root@srvoracle root]# ldapadd -x -D
>"cn=Manager,dc=calu,dc=com,dc=br" -W -f /root/inicial.ldif
>        [root@srvoracle root]# cat inicial.ldif
>        dn: dc=calu,dc=com,dc=br
>        objectclass: dcObject
>        objectclass: organization
>        o: Cooperativa Agropecuaria Ltda de Uberlandia
>        dc: calu
>
>        dn: cn=Manager,dc=calu,dc=com,dc=br
>        objectclass: organizationalRole
>        cn: Manager
>
>I can ldapsearch the LDAP db, but  can't add users in the way I'm showing
>
>
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