Re: ldif, a person with city and country

[Jobst Schmalenbach <jobst@barrett.com.au>]

Hi,

> > countryCode=AU
> 
> I presume the equals sign is a typo.

yes, sorry the equal signs are a typo, I sit in front of a few screens, I copied that by "view" - and it was late ;-)

> structure is valid. If the other two classes emailPerson and
> nameViewPerson are declared structural as well, that would cause an
> error. As this object classes are not standard track classes but

both auxiliary - I was trying some other objects I had seen on the net.

> An other question would be, why do you define a attribute type
> countryCode while there is an attribute type countryName allready in
> core schema.
> 

I was trying a string, I did not want the "two letter code".
In the wordpress AND moodle date base it's a string.


I figured it out, I created my own object.
Jobst



On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 08:37:49AM +0100, Dieter Kl?nter (dieter@dkluenter.de) wrote:
> Am Thu, 22 Nov 2012 16:27:06 +1100
> schrieb Jobst Schmalenbach <jobst@barrett.com.au>:
> 
> > Hi
> > 
> > Sorry, new member and just started using ldap (openldap). I am not
> > sure whether I can ask this question here as the name of the list
> > specifies "technical", if not please tell me list(s) where I can do
> > so.
> > 
> > For starters I have read the O'reilly book, I tried to figure out my
> > questions using the help in the FAQ's, I searched to net ... but I am
> > a little out of my depth in the moment.
> > 
> > I am trying to get LDAP to work to help authentication in wordpress
> > and moodle, with wordpress being the main part and moodle uses LDAP
> > for the authentication (subscription based) and some info for each
> > student from LDAP.
> > 
> > So far I can add entries to LDAP from wordpress, I can login to
> > wordpress using LDAP.
> > 
> > I have got it to work to allow access to moodle when the correct
> > username (uid) and password is found in LDAP but I want to add some
> > info about each student to LDAP, one the country and the other being
> > the city (and later some more).
> > 
> > So far I can add enough information for subscribers (billing address,
> > uid, telephone etc) using the standard schemas and object classes,
> > but I need a little mode info for each.
> > This is what I have:
> > 
> > dn: dc=MyDomain,dc=com,dc=au
> > dc: MyDomain
> > objectClass: domain
> > 
> > dn: o=Subscriptions,dc=MyDomain,dc=com,dc=au
> > o: Subscriptions
> > objectClass: organization
> > 
> > dn: ou=moodle,o=Subscriptions,dc=MyDomain,dc=com,dc=au
> > ou: moodle
> > objectClass: organizationalUnit
> > 
> > dn: uid=gemma, ou=moodle, o=Subscriptions, dc=MyDomain, dc=com, dc=au
> > objectclass: top
> > objectclass: person
> > objectclass: organizationalPerson
> > objectclass: inetorgPerson
> > objectclass: emailPerson
> > objectclass: NameViewPerson
> > cn=Gemma Turtle
> > sn=Turtle
> > givenName=Gemma Turtle
> > uid=gemma
> > countryCode=AU
> 
> I presume the equals sign is a typo.
> 
> > I end up with an error "invalid structural object class chain", which
> > I think means the country needs to be higher up the tree, but then I
> > would have to create the tree branches for every country (for each
> > person)?
> > 
> > Subscribers will come from different countries and countless cities
> > (which I haven't added yet) as this is part of the target audience.
> > 
> > I am not sure how to structure this.
> > Are there any ldif file around I can have a look that deal with
> > subscriptions like this?
> 
> It is not a matter of ldif design it is a matter of object class
> design. An entry may only have one structural object class chain. In
> your case it is person, organizationalPerson, inetorgPerson, this
> structure is valid. If the other two classes emailPerson and
> nameViewPerson are declared structural as well, that would cause an
> error. As this object classes are not standard track classes but
> private, you may change the classes from structural to auxiliary.
> An other question would be, why do you define a attribute type
> countryCode while there is an attribute type countryName allready in
> core schema.
> 
> -Dieter
> 
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