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Re: Invalid syntax on ldapadd

Chris G. Sellers wrote: 
I think posixAccount requires homeDirectory as well.  W/o that your
syntax is invalid because the objectclass is being violated.

Then he would have received an Object Class Violation message instead. Don't make up answers if you don't know them. If you want to help, that's great, but know what you're talking about first. It's not so hard to look up the list of error codes and what they mean.

On Jan 29, 2008, at 3:24 PM, Vinh.CTR.Hoang@faa.gov
<mailto:Vinh.CTR.Hoang@faa.gov> wrote:


Hi, I'm very new ldap, and i'm wondering if you guys can help me with
something.

I'm going over the some tutorials to setup ldap for authentication.
However, I can't seem to be able to add any users or groups.
I'm Solaris 9, w/ openldap 2.3.35.

my slapd.conf looks like:

database bdb
suffix "dc=caplan,dc=org"
rootdn "cn=root,dc=caplan,dc=org"
rootpw <PASSWORD>
directory /usr/local/var/openldap-data
index objecClass,uid,uidNumer,gidNumber eq

Is "objecClass" just a typo in your email, or mis-typed in your slapd.conf too? Same for "uidNumer".

Being new to LDAP isn't an excuse for being sloppy or careless. Every computing system in the world will only process the exact input you give it. Succeeding with LDAP doesn't really take any esoteric knowledge; it just requires you to pay attention to what you're doing, the same skills that you need in any other field.

index cn eq


the user i'm trying to add is:

dn: uid=ldapauth,dc=caplan,dc=org
objectclass: account
objectclass: posixAccount
objectclass: top
cn: ldapauth
uid: ldapauth
uidNumber: 100
gidNumber: 100

I have no trailling spaces.

my add commands is :
ldapadd -D "cn=root,dc=caplan,dc=org" -f <File>

no matter what i do i get "Invalid syntax" 

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Funny, I used to have an office in that building, about 20 years ago...

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