Re: Newbie's problem on ldapadd- Operations error (1)

[Jon Roberts <jon@jonanddeb.net>]

kaiduan xie wrote:
> Jon,
>
> Thank you very much for the help. Unfortunately, with your method I 
> still can not get it work.
>
> [root@kxielinux root]# ldapadd -f ldapexample.ldif
> adding new entry "cn=kaiduan xie,dc=goodstart,dc=com"
> ldap_add: Operations error (1)
>
> [root@kxielinux root]# more ldapexample.ldif
> dn: cn=kaiduan xie,dc=goodstart,dc=com
> objectclass: top
> objectclass: person
> sn: xie
> cn: kaiduan xie
>
> This time the space after each colon was added.
>
> This is my first touch on LDAP. (editing the /etc/openldap/sldap.conf,  
> running it with service start ldap, and then ldapadd -f  ldapexample.ldif).
>
> Any further comments?

You don't share the error output, so it's hard to say. Maybe you should 
add your root as entries first, like:

dn: dc=com
objectclass: top
objectclass: dcObject
dc: com

dn: dc=goodstart,dc=com
objectclass: top
objectclass: dcObject
dc: goodstart

Jon