Re: LDAP newb needs help.. (kinda long)

Chuck wrote:

On 10/21/07, *Michael Ströder* <michael@stroeder.com mailto:michael@stroeder.com> wrote:

Chuck wrote:
 > I am trying to add the following record stored in cwagon.ldif:
 >
 >   dn: uid=cwagon,ou=People,dc
 > =network,dc=com
 >
 >   cn: Chuck Wagon
 >
 >   sn: Wagon

[..]

 > # ldapadd -W -x -D "cn=Manager,dc=network,dc=com" -W -f cwagon.ldif
 > Enter LDAP Password:
 > warning: no attributes to add
 > (entry="uid=cwagon,ou=People,dc=network,dc=com")
 > adding new entry "uid=cwagon,ou=People,dc=network,dc=com"
 > ldap_add: Protocol error (2)
 >         additional info: no attributes provided

Maybe I'm wrong because your HTML e-mail formatting might have added
this. But it seems to me your file cwagon.ldif contains extra empty
lines. Note that an empty line is the separator between records in a
LDIF file. So your entry uid=cwagon,ou=People,dc=network,dc=com seems to
be empty since an empty line follows the line starting with dn:.

Ciao, Michael.

Cool, it wasn't blank lines but actual whitespace preceeding each line.... I did not know about ldif files and how white space is treated.

Thanks!

It's in the spec for LDIF and mentioned many times in our docs and FAQ ;-)