--On Thursday, December 03, 2009 10:49 AM -0700 Michael March mmarch@gmail.com wrote:

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... also from the slapadd man page:

"As slapadd is designed to accept LDIF in database order, as produced by slapcat(8), it does not verify that superior entries exist before adding an entry, does not perform all user and system schema checks, and does not maintain operational attributes (such as createTimeStamp and modifiersName). "

That statement is incorrect, and has been corrected in modern releases (2.4.x).  Old 2.3.x man pages have the statement, but were not correct.

http://www.openldap.org/software/man.cgi?query=slapadd&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=OpenLDAP+2.4-Release&format=html

Yup.. I confirmed this and you are correct.. I'm good now.

thanks!