Re: IPlanet to OpenLDAP migration - few issues

["Kurt D. Zeilenga" <Kurt@OpenLDAP.org>]

At 11:18 AM 2002-09-04, Frank Swasey wrote:
>From: "Banzaitron" <banzaitron@adelphia.net>
>
>> Question 1: Is it either possible to export the data without these
>> attributes, or to have openldap ignore those attributes?  Alternatively, I
>> am going to have to write an awk/sed script to strip them out, but was
>> wondering if there was a cleaner solution.
>
>Use slapadd instead of ldapadd.  slapadd will happily add those operational
>attributes into the database for you.
>
>> On a similar note, there are a few empty attributes in this directory such
>> as myorgstreet2 in the following LDIF entry:
><SNIP>
>> Question 2: Is there any way around this?
>
>According to the RFC's empty attributes are not allowed.

More precisely... some syntaxes don't allow empty values,
for example, directoryString.  And some do, for example,
octetString.

Kurt