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Re: Issue when injecting a new AttributeTypes in OpenLdap



Hallvard B Furuseth wrote:
Emmanuel Lécharny writes:
On 4/11/11 3:21 PM, Hallvard B Furuseth wrote:
Emmanuel Lecharny writes:
#!ERROR [LDAP: error code 21 - attributeTypes: value #0 invalid per syntax]
(...)
See the admin guide.  In OpenLDAP you add schema by modifying a schema
below cn=schema,cn=config, and you set 'olcAttributeTypes' rather than
'attributeTypes'.
Makes sense... Although the error message is extremely misleading :/

Yes, OpenLDAP could use an effort to improve error messages.

Ok, get it. It would be cool (tm) that OpenLDAP accepts direct modifications of the schema through LDAP requests.

Eh?  You can, that's why cn=config exists.  Just set up some DN to
have write access to it.  Normally a rootdn for database config.

It's just that you can't modify cn=subschema directly - then slapd
wouldn't know in which schema entry to store the attribute.  Look at
    ldapsearch ... -LLL -b cn=schema,cn=config -s one 1.1
which has one entry per schema file originally loaded into slapd.

In principle, one could modify cn=schema by using back-relay and a slapo-rwm that maps "cn=schema" to the appropriate "cn=config" node, and attributeTypes to olcAttributeTypes.

p.