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Re: ldapadd and "Invalid syntax"

To: openldap-software@OpenLDAP.org
Subject: Re: ldapadd and "Invalid syntax"
From: Ulli Horlacher <Ulli.Horlacher@RUS.Uni-Stuttgart.DE>
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2001 15:52:46 +0100
In-reply-to: <20010214183937.28219@belwue.de>; from Ulli Horlacher on Wed, Feb 14, 2001 at 06:39:37PM +0100
References: <20010214183937.28219@belwue.de>

On Wed 2001-02-14 (18:39), Ulli Horlacher wrote:

> # ldapadd -x -D "cn=Manager,dc=uni-stuttgart,dc=de" -w XXXX -f root.ldif
> adding new entry "dc=uni-stuttgart,dc=de"
> ldap_add: Invalid syntax
>         additional info: value contains invalid data
> ldif_record() = 21

Norbert Klasen <klasen@zdv.uni-tuebingen.de> found now the bug:
I have had a trailing space after "objectclass: dcObject" in my root.ldif!

What a horrible error circumstance!

The error message from ldapadd was totally misleading, espacially the
"ldif_record() = 21" - the wrong record was #3!

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References:
- ldapadd and "Invalid syntax"
  - From: Ulli Horlacher <Ulli.Horlacher@RUS.Uni-Stuttgart.DE>

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