Re: problems adding an entry

[Quinn Coldiron <qcoldir@nmhs.org>]

Thank you Peter!

That was a most helpfull answer.  The light clicked on, so I added 
objectclass: inetOrgPerson to my ldif file and now the addition works.

Thanks again.

Quinn

On Mon, 2002-10-28 at 13:27, Peter Marschall wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Monday 28 October 2002 19:39, Quinn Coldiron wrote:
> > Going through the standard schema files shipped with OpenLDAP, I see
> > mail entries in core.  Isn't the mail objectclass supported
> > out-of-thebox in OpenLDAP?
> You have to distinguish between attributes and objectclasses.
> Attributes are (some kind of) variables, while objectclasses 
> determine which attributes are allowed and/or required.
> 
> The attribute called "objectclass" gives the names of the
> objectclasses a spcific object is in.
> 
> Now, if you want to add the attribute mail to your object,
> this attribute has to be allowed by one of the objectclasses
> your object is in. If it doesn't you have to add the objectclass
> to the object by adding another value to the objectclass attribute
> of the object. If this is done, you can add the mail attribute
> 
> One possible objectclass might be inetOrgPerson which would
> require to add the following two lines to the object in question:
> 
> objectclass: inetOrgPerson
> mail: local.part@domain.part
> 
> Maybe you should have a closer look to the documentation
> (RFCs, FAW, schema files, ..) to better understand the LDAP
> data model wit attributes and objectclasses.
> 
> Yours
> Peter
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