LDAP

when am trying to add ldapuser.ldif am getting this error. [root@server ~]# ldapadd -x -D "cn=Manager,dc=example,dc=com" -W -f /etc/openldap/ldapusers.ldif Enter LDAP Password: adding new entry "uid=ldapuser,ou=People,cn=Manager,dc=example,dc=com" ldap_add: No such object (32) matched DN: cn=Manager,dc=example,dc=com This is my ldapuser.ldif dn: uid=ldapuser,ou=People,cn=Manager,dc=example,dc=com uid: ldapuser cn: Manager ou: People objectClass: account objectClass: posixAccount objectClass: top objectClass: shadowAccount userPassword: {crypt}c3ZWmT7fM2thY shadowLastChange: 13927 shadowMax: 99999 shadowWarning: 7 loginShell: /bin/bash uidNumber: 507 gidNumber: 100 homeDirectory: /home/ldapuser And is it necessary to extract the information of ldapuser from /etc/passwd file and for linux root account and extracted the /etc/passwd data into an ldif file and imported to that database.