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Re: Weird problem importing data to an OpenLDAP Server



On Mon, 2006-06-05 at 18:35 -0300, Andres Tarallo wrote:
> I'm using OpenLDAP version 2.2.27, from SuSE RPMs, in SuSE 10.0. We have
> an Old SuSE Email Server and we're dumping soem of  the attributes of
> it's users and importing them to the corresponding users in the New LDAP
> Server.
> 
> With the data of some users i get something like this as error: *
> ldapadd: invalid format (line 12) entry:
> "uid=XXXXX,ou=Users,dc=ort,dc=edu,dc=uy"*
> 
> I runned ldapadd with an -S swtich, in the log file I've got:* Error:
> Bad parameter to an ldap routine (-9)*.
> 
> I'm lost so any help you can offer is welcome.

First of all, I suggest you drop 2.2.27 and install a decent 2.3 from
scratch.  Moving from what you call "Old" to what we call "Ancient"
would put people in a better mood as to whether spend time providing
further suggestions.

Then you should provide a bit more information about what error you're
encountering.  For example, post the contents of the LDIF file that
caused the issue.  Since you appear to have a format problem, make sure
you only sanitize the contents as little as possible for security
reasons (if you change a username, make sure you don't hide that it
contained fancy chars, and so).  You should run ldapadd with debug
switched on (-d something; libldap mostly uses "trace" so you should be
fine with it).  From your posting, it is not clear what the offending
string is.  Is the stars and the double quotes part of the DN?  By
inspecting the real LDIF it should be immediately clear what's wrong.

p.




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