Re: ldapadd error

[Quanah Gibson-Mount <quanah@stanford.edu>]

--On Tuesday, April 11, 2006 3:46 PM -0500 Adam Williams 
<awilliam@mdah.state.ms.us> wrote:

> Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote:
> > Did you create "dc=mdah,dc=state,dc=ms,dc=us" ?
> >
> > And as a side note, "ou" stands for Organizational Unit.  Most places
> > do not consider "people" one of their organizational unites, and I
> > doubt yours does either. ;)  I would suggest using "cn".
> >
> > You may want to look at:
> >
> > <http://www.stanford.edu/services/directory/openldap/configuration/>
> >
> > specifically the
> >
> > <http://www.stanford.edu/services/directory/openldap/configuration/base-
> > ldif.html>
> >
> >
> > link.
>
>
> in slapd.conf I have:
>
> database        bdb
> suffix          "dc=mdah,dc=state,dc=ms,dc=us"
> rootdn          "cn=adam,dc=mdah,dc=state,dc=ms,dc=us"
>
> Thats where I create "dc=mdah,dc=state,dc=ms,dc=us"", right?  Or do I
> need to do something to create it somewhere else?


Yes, you must create it in your LDAP database, too, with LDIF.  See the 
URL's above.

--Quanah

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