Re: 2 questions...

["Pierangelo Masarati" <masarati@aero.polimi.it>]

hmasoud@arabia.com writes: 

> Hi all... 
>
> my setup is  
>
> Redhat Linux 7.2
> openldap-2.0.11-13
> openldap-clients-2.0.11-13
> openldap-servers-2.0.11-13
> gdbm-1.8.0-10 
>
> I am a beginner in ldap and OpenLdap, I followed the OpenLDAP 2.0 
> Administrator's Guide and when I reached the quick start guide I managed
> to use ldapsearch, but I failed to use ldapadd, although I followed strictly
> what is written in the quick-start guide. 
>
> I found out that removing comments from the configuration file solves this
> problem. My first question is why comments are problematic in this case? 

This sounds very odd; can you give an example of what comments
caused what error? 

> I then tried to use migration tools. I used migrate_all_online.sh script,
> it worked fine till it reached /etc/protocols and when it tries to add an
> entry for the protocol tp++ it terminates with the following message: 
>
>
> 	adding new entry "cn=tp++,ou=Protocols,dc=testyard"
> 	ldap_add: Invalid DN syntax
>   	      additional info: invalid DN 
>
> second question: what is the problem? is it the (++) at the end of cn?

Definitely; plusses in DNs must be escaped. Try 

dn: cn=tp\+\+,ou=Protocols,dc=testyard 

(and see rfc2256 and the internet draft on DN and ldapbis). 

Pierangelo. 


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