Re: [LDAP: error code 17 - attribute description contains inappropriate characters]

[Steven Engelhard <mail@steven-engelhard.de>]

Ok this works fine, but now i get the following error:

[LDAP: error code 17 - attribute type undefined]
javax.naming.directory.InvalidAttributeIdentifierException: [LDAP: error
code 17
 - attribute type undefined]; remaining name
'UID=1USERSPIRELLA,CN=USER,OU=COSS'

I'm using JNDI to access openldap.

Steven.


Devdas Bhagat wrote:

> On Wed, 30 May 2001, Steven Engelhard spewed into the ether:
> > I have special attributes like "user_description", "user_rights" etc.
> _'s are not allowed for attribute types.
> Replace these with something else.
>
> (Though I wish they were allowed, I usually use _ to separate variable
> names in code when using somethinglike file_pointer, instead of
> filePointer.  Caps are for defines.)
>
> Devdas Bhagat
> --
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