Re: Reg Adding New Attributes

[Quanah Gibson-Mount <quanah@zimbra.com>]

--On Thursday, September 10, 2009 9:33 AM -0700 Quanah Gibson-Mount 
<quanah@zimbra.com> wrote:

> --On Thursday, September 10, 2009 3:20 PM +0530 Asimananda Mohanty
> <asimananda.mohanty@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi All,
> >
> >
> > I have installed OpenLdap and PHPLdapAdmin.
> >
> >
> > I have added a user which objectclass is :
> >
> >
> > objectClass inetOrgPerson posixAccount shadowAccount
> >
> >
> > I need to add a new attribute which will be application specific
> > (application which will need LDAP authentication and based on the
> > attribute value, it will provide service to the user).
> >
> >
> > When I tried to do the same by adding attribute and value to ldif files
> > and then adding the ldif file, it showed error:
> >
> >
> > ldap_add: Undefined attribute type (17) additional info: AppAttribute1:
> > attribute type undefined.
>
>
> What is AppAttribute1?  It's not a part of any of those schema.

Or more to the point -- Have you defined your own custom schema, with that 
attribute and whatever other custom attributes you need, with an 
objectClass holding them?

I suggest reading over <http://www.openldap.org/faq/data/cache/219.html>

--Quanah

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Quanah Gibson-Mount
Principal Software Engineer
Zimbra, Inc
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