ldapadd -x -h localhost -D "cn=mailadmin,dc=global-drum,dc=com" -W -f /srv/ox/share/init_ldap.ldif works! why don't they tell you in the tutorial to have double quotes :P

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Ian Moroney Field Engineer

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From: David Damon [mailto:ddamon@Baxglobal.com] Sent: 07 February 2007 19:00 To: Ian Moroney Cc: openldap-software@openldap.org Subject: Re: Invalid DN

Ian, Try ldapadd -x -h localhost -D "cn=mailadmin,dc=global-drum,dc=com" -W -f /srv/ox/share/init_ldap.ldif and see if this works. Notice the DN after the -D is in double quotes. Also, if you have the HOSTS (which is depreciated) or URI (which is the new way of defining providers) defined in your /etc/openldap/ldap.conf file you do not need to define the -h localhost in the ldapadd or ldapsearch commands.

Regards,

David Damon

Senior Systems Integration Analyst

"Ian Moroney" ian.moroney@techdivision.co.uk

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02/07/2007 07:09 AM

To openldap-software@openldap.org cc Subject Invalid DN

Hi again all! Just another brick wall i've ran into...

I am running the following command: ldapadd -x -h localhost -D cn=mailadmin,dc=global-drum,dc=com -W -f /srv/ox/share/init_ldap.ldif I then get: ldap_bind: Invalid DN syntax (34) additional info: invalid DN

This error happens if i have UID=mailadmin,dc=global-drum,dc=com, cn=root.... cn=mailadmin or whatever.

if necessary, i can post the contents of the init_ldap.ldif and my slapd.conf files.

ldapsearch -h localhost -D "UID=mailadmin,dc=global-drum,dc=com" -x -W (after password enter) comes back with:

# extended LDIF # # LDAPv3 # base <> with scope subtree # filter: (objectclass=*) # requesting: ALL #

# search result search: 2 result: 32 No such object

# numResponses: 1

and when i look at slapd -d -1, it is showing the following, amongst other things: ldap_read: want=8, got=7 0000: 30 05 02 01 03 42 00 ber_get_next: tag 0x39 len 5 contents: ber_dump: buf=0x80268b80 ptr=0x80268b80 end=0x80268b85 len=5 0000: 02 01 03 42 00 ber_get_next ldap_read: want=8 error=Resource temporarily unavailable ber_get_next on fd 16 failed errno=11 (Resource temporarily unavailable)

The database is supposed to be empty, so maybe it should be reporting what it is reporting above. Thoughts?

Thanks and Kind Regards,

Ian Moroney Field Engineer

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