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by **Vladimir Goncharo** » Tue, 02 Oct 2001 18:57:07

Hi, Eric

> Hi all !
> So could someone send me a valid "slapd.conf", "ldap.conf" and LDIF file
> to populate my LDAP database with one organization, one
> organizationalUnit and one person entry, this for RedHat 7.1 ?
> By the way where went "ldif2ldbm" command ?

I don't have RedHat distribution, but I think you could try to use
slapadd command to populate your database.

WBR, Vladimir Goncharov

by **Eric LEMAITR** » Tue, 02 Oct 2001 20:56:28

Priviet (Hi) Vladimir !

>>So could someone send me a valid "slapd.conf", "ldap.conf" and LDIF file
>>to populate my LDAP database with one organization, one
>>organizationalUnit and one person entry, this for RedHat 7.1 ?
>>By the way where went "ldif2ldbm" command ?

> I don't have RedHat distribution, but I think you could try to use
> slapadd command to populate your database.

Saddly, I allready used both "slapadd" and "ldapadd" forms of commands,
without any success. For one of them succeeded and seemed to populate
LDAP database but when you used an LDAP client to fetch info it allways
failed saying "no such object", while other command never succeeded with
any personn entry .
Thanks anyway Vladimir, but it can't be so simple. I searched for hours
and tried all what doc said.

Bye !

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by **Kenneth Grav** » Wed, 03 Oct 2001 11:08:25

>In previous Linux RedHat versions, I had a running LDAP config, but on
>RedHat 7.1 version, nothing works any longer.
>Of course, I read all docs and lost many hours trying to make my config
>work, but I achieved nothing. I cannot figure out whether my config is
>bad or whether LDAP service is broken (in RedHat 7.0, TFTP server was
>broken so it didn't work whatever the config).

Openldap went from 1.x to 2.x, which is much pickier about syntax.
(Annoyingly so in my opinion; schemas can go hang.)

May sure you have defined suffix in /etc/openldap/slapd.conf.
In your case, I think

suffix "o=Pingouins, c=FR"

Then make sure you add (using ldapadd or slapadd) entries in the
correct order (organization, then organizationalunit, then person).

--kag

by **Eric LEMAITR** » Wed, 03 Oct 2001 17:13:34

Hi Kenneth !

>Openldap went from 1.x to 2.x, which is much pickier about syntax.
>(Annoyingly so in my opinion; schemas can go hang.)

>May sure you have defined suffix in /etc/openldap/slapd.conf.
>In your case, I think

>suffix "o=Pingouins, c=FR"

>Then make sure you add (using ldapadd or slapadd) entries in the correct order (organization, then organizationalunit, then person).

Saddly I effectively did that allready, it still didn't work.
I insist on the fact that it worked before (but by constructing database
with "ldif2ldbm" command from an LDIF file), and that the "slapadd -l
file.ldif" works and constructs the database, but anyway from a standard
LDAP client (Netscape Messenger) I allways get a "no such object" each
time I try to use it.
What is worse with my LDIF file is that even with "-n" option of
"ldapadd ..... -f file.ldif" it seems to work (this option simply checks
for correct syntax without constructing LDAP database so as to avoid any
uncomplete entry), but when I try to without the option it fails :-(( .

Perhaps I should ask this another way, could anyone who achieved to make
OpenLDAP run on RedHat 7.1 send me its files "slapd.conf", "ldap.conf"
and one LDIF file with one Organiztion plus one OrganizationalUnit plus
one Person entry ?

Best regards, thanks for answering anyway :-) .

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by **Vladimir Goncharo** » Wed, 03 Oct 2001 21:19:02

Hi, again

> I insist on the fact that it worked before (but by constructing database
> with "ldif2ldbm" command from an LDIF file), and that the "slapadd -l
> file.ldif" works and constructs the database, but anyway from a standard
> LDAP client (Netscape Messenger) I allways get a "no such object" each

Last chance: did you try -x switch? I've got several terrible minutes
when I was trying to get right answer from fresh copy of openldap bases ( it
was configured with SASL authentification).

WBR, Vladimir Goncharov

by **Eric LEMAITR** » Thu, 04 Oct 2001 00:48:36

Priviet (Hi) Vladimir & All !

>Last chance: did you try -x switch? I've got several terrible minutes
> when I was trying to get right answer from fresh copy of openldap bases ( it
> was configured with SASL authentification).

I got it !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
But as it was really hard to find out, I give out the solution to the
whole NewsGroup anyway so that people don't loose time as I did.
Very saddly, as I feared but I didn't believe it, LDAP server was simply
broken in RedHat 7.1 as TFTP server was in previous RedHat version
(7.0), which means the network service COULD NOT WORK whatever the config.
To fix the whole thing, I had to update RPM packages related to LDAP
server using "Roswell" beta 7.2 version. This allowed me immediately to
build an LDAP database with one Organization & some OrganizationalUnits
right away without changing anything, which definitely proves LDAP
server was broken in previous version. But I still couldn't add any
Person including an EMail property (without EMail it worked), so I had
to investigate and I discovered that for a person to have an EMail
property, it had to be a "inetOrgPerson", not a "Person", as an
objectClass. This is a feature of new "schema" system.
Now everything works, but it was hard to set :-( . I expect newest
RedHat 7.2 to fix other bugs, so I keep waiting anxiously.

Best regards all !

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