Re: Newbie LDIF question

[Peter Huetmannsberger <huetmann@site38.ping.at>]

This is my first ldif whihc started me off on my ldap directory

dn: dc=virtual-FC3-4, dc=ok-centrum, dc=at
objectClass: top
objectClass: dcObject
objectClass: organization
o: virtual-FC3-4
dc: virtual-FC3-4

so your first ldif should look like:

dn: dc=itops,dc=com
objectclass: top
objectClass: dcObject
objectclass: organization
o: ITOPS
description: itops


Hope this helps

.peter




On Thu, 15 Sep 2005, Steve Parker wrote:

> I've installed OpenLDAP, and it's running happily with TLS and SASL, so the 
> next step is to create the hierarchy.
> First the organisation (itops.com in this instance), then 
> ou=People,dc=itops,dc=com (and so on for hosts, etc, etc).
> I've trawled the web for examples and I'm obviously missing something which 
> must be staring me in the face because nothing works:
>
> root@ldap1 # cat eg1.ldif
> dn: dc=itops,dc=com
> objectclass: top
> objectclass: organization
> o: ITOPS
> description: itops
>
> root@ldap1 # /usr/local/bin/ldapadd -c -Y DIGEST-MD5 -U Manager -W -f 
> eg1.ldif
> Enter LDAP Password:
> SASL/DIGEST-MD5 authentication started
> SASL username: Manager
> SASL SSF: 128
> SASL installing layers
> adding new entry "dc=itops,dc=com"
> ldap_add: Naming violation (64)
>       additional info: naming attribute 'dc' is not present in entry
>
> root@ldap1 #
>
> Okay, so add a "dc" entry:
>
> root@ldap1 # cat eg2.ldif
> dn: dc=itops,dc=com
> objectclass: top
> objectclass: organization
> o: ITOPS
> dc: itops
> description: itops
>
> root@ldap1 # /usr/local/bin/ldapadd -c -Y DIGEST-MD5 -U Manager -W -f 
> eg2.ldif
> Enter LDAP Password:
> SASL/DIGEST-MD5 authentication started
> SASL username: Manager
> SASL SSF: 128
> SASL installing layers
> adding new entry "dc=itops,dc=com"
> ldap_add: Object class violation (65)
>       additional info: attribute 'dc' not allowed
>
> root@ldap1 #
>
> So it's not allowed??? Okay, add "dcObject" ... this is all trial-and-error, 
> as you can see:
>
> root@ldap1 # cat eg3.ldif
> dn: dc=itops,dc=com
> objectclass: top
> objectclass: dcObject
> objectclass: organization
> o: ITOPS
> dc: itops
> description: itops
>
> root@ldap1 # /usr/local/bin/ldapadd -c -Y DIGEST-MD5 -U Manager -W -f 
> eg3.ldif
> Enter LDAP Password:
> SASL/DIGEST-MD5 authentication started
> SASL username: Manager
> SASL SSF: 128
> SASL installing layers
> adding new entry "dc=itops,dc=com"
> ldap_add: No such object (32)
>
> What does this "No such object" mean? I could add an object for "com", but it 
> doesn't like that:
> root@ldap1 # cat com.ldif
> dn: dc=com
> objectclass: top
> objectclass: dcObject
> objectclass: organization
> o: com
> dc: com
> description: com
> root@ldap1 # /usr/local/bin/ldapadd -c -Y DIGEST-MD5 -U Manager -W -f 
> com.ldif
> Enter LDAP Password:
> SASL/DIGEST-MD5 authentication started
> SASL username: Manager
> SASL SSF: 128
> SASL installing layers
> adding new entry "dc=com"
> ldap_add: Server is unwilling to perform (53)
>       additional info: no global superior knowledge
>
> root@ldap1 #
>
> There must be a really simple answer to this; can anybody shed some light?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Steve
> steve@itops.com