Re: Newbie question about ldif

[Terry Gardner <Terry.Gardner@Sun.COM>]

"top" is the ancestor of all objectClasses. I do not know why your  
utility does not work. If it were me, I would test your LDAP setup by  
using ldapsearch to verify that the entries can be returned before  
using some other layer:

ldapsearch -h hostname -p port -s base -b  
'uid=scarter,ou=people,dc=ceu,dc=hu' '(objectClass=*)' dn

On Jun 8, 2009, at 8:19 AM, J. Bakshi wrote:

> Terry Gardner wrote:
> > The objectClass (which is an attribute in and of itself) defines what
> > "must" or "could" be used in an entry. Choose the collection of
> > objectClass attribute for each type of data needed, for example:
> >
> > dn: cn=bakshi,ou=people,dc=example,dc=com
> > objectClass: top
> > objectClass: inetOrgPerson
> > cn: bakshi
> > sn: bakshi
> > userPassword: a_password
> > description: a user entry
>
> Thanks a lot for your response. It seems that we can use more than one
> object class. Though interested to know the objectclass:top.  Shall I
> need to do any modification to slapd.conf  ( beside base DN and
> Administrative user/Password ) to work with ldap ?  I have followed  
> this
> sample ldif ( from net ) but phpldapadmin does not show me the entries
>
> `````````````````````````````````````````````
> dn: dc=ceu,dc=hu
> objectclass: dcObject
> objectclass: organization
> o: CEENET Workshop 2001
>
> dn: ou=people,dc=ceu,dc=hu
> objectclass: organizationalUnit
> ou: people
>
> dn: uid=scarter,ou=people,dc=ceu,dc=hu
> cn: Sam Carter
> sn: Carter
> givenname: Sam
> objectclass: top
> objectclass: person
> objectclass: organizationalPerson
> objectclass: inetOrgPerson
> ou: Accounting
> ou: People
> l: Sunnyvale
> uid: scarter
> mail: scarter@tutorial.hu
> telephonenumber: +1 408 555 4798
> facsimiletelephonenumber: +1 408 555 9751
> roomnumber: 4612
> userpassword: sprain
> `````````````````````````````````````````````````````
>
>
> > On Jun 8, 2009, at 3:10 AM, J. Bakshi wrote:
> >
> > > Dear all,
> > >
> > > greetings to all.
> > > Hope I have joined the right list to discuss about openldap  
> > > technology.
> > >
> > > I am working with typo3 and openldap. Typo3 is a CMS ( content
> > > management system ) just like Drupal, Joomla etc..
> > > I like to implement an openldap based system where I can have a
> > > organization based structure like department, company etc and can  
> > > store
> > > persons with their name, address, contact  along with  userid/ 
> > > password
> > > which will be used to authenticate the front end user login in  
> > > typo3.
> > >
> > > To start with I need a well designed  ldif file. I have already  
> > > get some
> > > example ldif from internet  but those are missing the useris/ 
> > > password
> > > authentication.
> > > More over the    " objectclass: organizationalPerson "  "   
> > > objectclass:
> > > inetOrgPerson "   "objectClass: dcObject"  "objectClass:  
> > > organization"
> > > are very much confusing :-(
> > >
> > > Could any one kindly enlighten me a little about those "objectcalss"
> > > and which one is best suited for my  requirement ?
> > > A sample  ldif file with little explanation will help me a great.
> > >
> > > Thanks