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Re: Newbie OpenLDAP woes



Hi,

Kristen  Walker <kwalker@sbceo.org> writes:

> Hi everyone,
>
> I am new to OpenLDAP and this list.  I joined because I am trying to set up
> an OpenLDAP server so that Moodle and ELGG can authenticate users from the
> LDAP server.  It is a little more difficult than I thought it would be, and
> I am running into some frustrating problems that I don't understand.  I am
> hoping someone here might be able to help.
>
> I am using Ubuntu and using the book Mastering OpenLDAP as my guide.
>
> I have the server set up, edited config files and installed phpldapadmin to
> make things a little easier for me.  I added my first entries but do not see
> them when I do a search, and nothing appears under my base in phpldapadmin
> (see attached screen shot).  I don't get any complaints when I add the
> entries from my .ldif file, so I just don't understand why they don't seem
> to end up in my directory.
>
>
> If I do this command, sudo slapcat -a '(uid=barbara)' , the result is:
>
> dn:
> ou: Users
> uid: barbara
> sn: Jensen
[...]

This entry has an empty DN, thus is not stored in the database defined
by the suffix parameter in slapd.conf

create propper entries as described in the OpenLDAP docs
http://www.openldap.org/doc/admin24/dbtools.html

-Dieter

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