Re: ldapmodify: multiple additions

[Philip Guenther <guenther+ldaptech@sendmail.com>]

On Wed, 13 Mar 2013, infirit wrote:
> Hi, I am working through a book (Mastering OpenLDAP, Packtpub) which is
> based on openldap 2.3.
> 
> The book talks in chapter 3 how to modify/add/delete attributes for a
> dn. It instructs to put the bellow in an ldif file and read it with
> ldapmodify. The writer? point here is that I am supposed to add both a
> "description" and "title" without separating out the additions with a
> dash (-).
> 
> It never works for me and always comes with a syntax error.
> 
> non working ldif file:
> dn: uid=nicholas,ou=Users,dc=home
> changetype: modify
> add: description title # <- 2 attributes
> description: This is a test
> title: Cartesian philosopher
> 
> Error: ldapmodify: wrong attributeType at line 4, entry
> "uid=nicholas,ou=Users,dc=home"
> 
> The ldif file that does work is below.
> 
> Working ldif file:
> dn: uid=nicholas,ou=Users,dc=home
> changetype: modify
> add: description
> description: This is a test
> -
> add: title
> title: Cartesian philosopher
> 
> Now am I doing something wrong, is the book using functionality that is
> not available in openldap version 2.4 or something else?

The non-working syntax doesn't work because it doesn't match the syntax 
specified in RFC 2849.  It *looks* kinda like LDIF, but it really isn't. 
You should contact the book author so they can fix it for a future 
printing.


Philip Guenther