RE: Can you use the Null DN??

[Brian.Benson@software.com (Brian Benson)]

Thanks Kurt.

It seems that unless I put them under a specific, known suffix (dc=com,
o=top1, etc.) in the slapd.conf it will not accept them.  Oh well, I can
simply do as you suggest and add multiple suffixes.   I have been toying
around with an LDAP database/server at work and we don't have a suffix
configured in the slapd.conf and it allows me to add anything I want.  Is
the suffix a requirement of the RFC?

Thanks,
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  Brian Benson   Software.Com
  Professional Services Group
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|-----Original Message-----
|From: Kurt D. Zeilenga [mailto:Kurt@OpenLDAP.Org]
|Sent: Friday, June 18, 1999 10:56 PM
|To: Brian Benson
|Cc: OpenLdap
|Subject: Re: Can you use the Null DN??
|
|
|At 08:03 PM 6/18/99 -0400, Brian Benson wrote:
|>    dn: o=top1
|>    objectclass: top
|>    objectclass: organization
|>    o: top1
|>
|>    dn: o=top2
|>    objectclass: top
|>    objectclass: organization
|>    o: top2
|>
|>
|>Can this be done?  I don't want one large tree, I would rather
|have several
|>smaller trees.
|
|Using OpenLDAP 1.2, you can only add top-level DNs which are
|suffixes.  If you want one backend and lots of top level
|dns, you can specify multiple suffixes:
|
|database ldbm
|suffix	""
|suffix	"o=top1"
|suffix "o=top2"
|
|However, I do think adding top-level DNs should be allowed if "" is
|a suffix.
|
|	Kurt
|