Re: Need help to export ldap user home directory "/home/ldapuser" to client LDAP

[Michael Ströder <michael@stroeder.com>]

ashwani singh wrote:
> [root@sc1435-7 home]# ldapmodify -x -D "cn=Manager,dc=ldapserver,dc=com" 
> -W -f /etc/openldap/automount.ldif
> [..]
> modifying entry "cn=testdir,ou=auto.home,dc=ldapserver,dc=com"
> ldap_modify: No such object (32)
>        matched DN: ou=auto.home,dc=ldapserver,dc=com

From this error message it's pretty obvious that the entry
"cn=testdir,ou=auto.home,dc=ldapserver,dc=com" which you're trying to 
modify does not yet exist.

See also: http://www.openldap.org/faq/data/cache/343.html

> # cat /etc/openldap/automount.ldif
> [..]
> dn: cn=LDAP,ou=auto.home,dc=ldapserver,dc=com
> objectClass: automount
> automountInformation: -rw,hard,intr sc1435-7:/home/LDAP
> cn: LDAP

This is not a ldif-change-record suitable for ldapmodify. It seems to be 
a ldif-attrval-record specifying a complete entry. Do you want to add 
this as a new entry? Then use command-line tool ldapadd instead which 
will raise an error on existing LDAP entries though. Note that 
ldapmodify does not automagically add LDAP entries for a 
ldif-attrval-record found in your LDIF file.

For a definition of ldif-change-record and ldif-attrval-record see RFC 
2849. It also contains a chapter with examples.

Ciao, Michael.