Re: ldapadd: Invalid syntax (21)

François Mehault writes:

ldapadd: Invalid syntax (21) additional info: objectClass: value #1 invalid per syntax

objectClass: dcObject objectClass: organizationUnitName

2nd line ("value #1" is counted from 0) should be objectClass: organizationalUnit

organizationUnitName is a misspelling of "organizationalUnitName" which is an alias for the attribute type "ou".

To keep those straight, think of the LDAP/X.500 data model: An LDAP entry describes some real-world entity, and its objectClass indicates what kind of entity it describes: In this case an organizational unit (department, institute, whatever), not just the unit's name. *One* of the things it must say is the org.unit's name, so it must contain "ou" aka "organizationalUnitName".