Re: new user stuff

[Ludovic Poitou - Sun Microsystems <Ludovic.Poitou@France.Sun.COM>]

I don't think John's suggestion works with OpenLDAP.

You can use jpegphoto: /tmp/picture.jpg if you load your ldif file with
ldapadd -b.

The -b option means that any attribute value starting with a / is considered
as a filename from which the value is to be read.

Ludovic Poitou.
Sun Microsystems
Solaris Directory Services Group.


> dustin sallings wrote:
> > 
> > ... how come when I did this:
> > 
> > jpegphoto: /tmp/picture.jpg
> > 
> > ...it didn't store the image, but just the path to the image?
> 
> That's an LDIF fragment, I suppose.  Try this, instead:
> 
> jpegphoto:< file:///tmp/picture.jpg
> 
> That's if your software supports <draft-good-ldap-ldif-01>, e.g.
> http://sunsite.cnlab-switch.ch/ftp/mirror/internet-drafts/draft-good-ldap-ldif-01.txt
> With older software, omit the "file://" part (so the '<' is followed by
> a simple file name, not a URL).