Re: Really confusing responses (was: Re: Can't slapadd ldif file)

[Luca Scamoni <luca.scamoni@sys-net.it>]

Phil Dibowitz wrote:

> Igor Brezac wrote:
>
> > You proly want to do 'ldapadd -x -f example.ldif'.
>
>
> OH doh! I come back and think I remember commands I've been using for 
> a day. Stupid me.
>
> What I MEANT was:
>
> slapadd -l example.ldif
>
> Stupid me.
>
> OK, that clears a lot up. Now my problem is this. I'm trying to add 
> the following to a blank server. Note that I've changed 
> dc=example,dc=com back to o=example.com because it likes that better.
>
> -----------------------------
> dn: o=example.com,c=US
> objectclass: organization
> objectclass: top
> o: example.com
>
> dn: ou=User,o=example.com,c=US
> objectclass: top
> objectclass: organizationalUnit
> ou: User
>
> dn: cn=Phil Dibowitz,ou=User,c=US
> objectclass: person
> cn: Phil Dibowitz
> sn: Dibowitz
> uid: 505
> uid: phil
> -------------------------------------
>
> And the first and second seem to add fine, but the third doesn't. When 
> I 'slapadd -l' this file I get:
>
> slapadd: database (o=example.com,c=US) not configured to hold 
> dn="cn=Phil Dibowitz,ou=User,c=US" (line=18)
>
> Speaking of which, where they heck does slapadd get it's line numbers? 
> They're always way off....

You are telling ldap to create an entry under a root it doesn't have. 
The root is o=example.com,c=US (you defined it in the first entry) so 
stick to it:

dn: cn=Phil Dibowitz,ou=User,o=example.com,c=US