Re: need help with a suffix

[Pierangelo Masarati <masarati@aero.polimi.it>]

bryan kruel wrote:

> hello,
>
> my sincere apologies if this was already answered before,
> but i searched for this on the mailing list archive and
> didn't turn up any helpful suggestions...
>
> i currently have an ldap directory that works great.
> suffix is "dc=foo,dc=com".  rootdn is
> "cn=Manager,dc=foo,dc=com".
>
> however, i now want to add bar.com.
>
> with this addition i want to be able to have the entries
> similar to the following:
>
> dn: uid=guest,dc=server1,dc=foo,dc=com
>
> dn: uid=guest,dc=server1,dc=bar,dc=com
>
> all of this should be part of the same ldap directory.
>
> so i changed my slapd.conf and set my suffix to just
> "dc=com" and rootdn to "cn=Manager,dc=com".  i also backed
> up /usr/local/var/openldap-ldbm to openldap-ldbm.orig,
> created a new openldap-ldbm directory, and restarted slapd.
>
> slapd starts up, but when i try to add entries, i get "No
> such object."
>
> i start out by trying to add dn "dc=foo,dc=com".  "No such
> object."  then i try to add "dc=bar,dc=com".  "No such
> object."
>
> with my previous slapd.conf, i can add
> "dc=server1,dc=foo,dc=com", and from there i can import my
> /etc/passwd into the directory.  with the suffix set to
> just "dc=com", i can't add anything.  :-[
>
> any suggestions?
>
> thanks in advance.

sounds like you didn't add any "dn: dc=com" first.
Pierangelo.


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