On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 12:18:17AM -0600, Dan White (dwhite(a)olp.net) wrote: [snip] took me a while to "get it" ... the way you wrote it down - close and the order - made the penny drop, thanks. shouldn't have been in there, I was trying different things that I found - they were a "left over" - working but did not give me what I wanted. Understood! Did that, took me a few hours to put it altogether - and then the penny dropped again. Now I have got an object class filled with ALL the things I wanted: objectclass ( CustomerObject:1.2012.11.19.1 NAME 'Customer' DESC 'Customer' SUP person STRUCTURAL MUST ( email ) MAY ( country $ city $ firstname $ lastname $ language $ description $ website $ department $ mobile $ mobileTelephoneNumber $ postalAddress $ address1 $ address2 $ state $ postcode $ facebook $ twitter $ googleplus $ nickname $ displayname )) yeah and http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2252.txt ;-) thanks for your help Jobst -- My Dogma got run over by my Karma. | |0| | Jobst Schmalenbach, jobst(a)barrett.com.au, General Manager | | |0| Barrett Consulting Group P/L & The Meditation Room P/L |0|0|0| +61 3 9532 7677, POBox 277, Caulfield South, 3162, Australia

Hi, yes, sorry the equal signs are a typo, I sit in front of a few screens, I copied that by "view" - and it was late ;-) both auxiliary - I was trying some other objects I had seen on the net. I was trying a string, I did not want the "two letter code". In the wordpress AND moodle date base it's a string. I figured it out, I created my own object. Jobst On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 08:37:49AM +0100, Dieter Kl?nter (dieter(a)dkluenter.de) wrote: > Am Thu, 22 Nov 2012 16:27:06 +1100 > schrieb Jobst Schmalenbach <jobst(a)barrett.com.au&gt;: > > > Hi > > > > Sorry, new member and just started using ldap (openldap). I am not > > sure whether I can ask this question here as the name of the list > > specifies "technical", if not please tell me list(s) where I can do > > so. > > > > For starters I have read the O'reilly book, I tried to figure out my > > questions using the help in the FAQ's, I searched to net ... but I am > > a little out of my depth in the moment. > > > > I am trying to get LDAP to work to help authentication in wordpress > > and moodle, with wordpress being the main part and moodle uses LDAP > > for the authentication (subscription based) and some info for each > > student from LDAP. > > > > So far I can add entries to LDAP from wordpress, I can login to > > wordpress using LDAP. > > > > I have got it to work to allow access to moodle when the correct > > username (uid) and password is found in LDAP but I want to add some > > info about each student to LDAP, one the country and the other being > > the city (and later some more). > > > > So far I can add enough information for subscribers (billing address, > > uid, telephone etc) using the standard schemas and object classes, > > but I need a little mode info for each. > > This is what I have: > > > > dn: dc=MyDomain,dc=com,dc=au > > dc: MyDomain > > objectClass: domain > > > > dn: o=Subscriptions,dc=MyDomain,dc=com,dc=au > > o: Subscriptions > > objectClass: organization > > > > dn: ou=moodle,o=Subscriptions,dc=MyDomain,dc=com,dc=au > > ou: moodle > > objectClass: organizationalUnit > > > > dn: uid=gemma, ou=moodle, o=Subscriptions, dc=MyDomain, dc=com, dc=au > > objectclass: top > > objectclass: person > > objectclass: organizationalPerson > > objectclass: inetorgPerson > > objectclass: emailPerson > > objectclass: NameViewPerson > > cn=Gemma Turtle > > sn=Turtle > > givenName=Gemma Turtle > > uid=gemma > > > I end up with an error "invalid structural object class chain", which > > I think means the country needs to be higher up the tree, but then I > > would have to create the tree branches for every country (for each > > person)? > > > > Subscribers will come from different countries and countless cities > > (which I haven't added yet) as this is part of the target audience. > > > > I am not sure how to structure this. > > Are there any ldif file around I can have a look that deal with > > subscriptions like this? > > It is not a matter of ldif design it is a matter of object class > design. An entry may only have one structural object class chain. In > your case it is person, organizationalPerson, inetorgPerson, this > private, you may change the classes from structural to auxiliary. > -Dieter > > -- > Dieter Klünter | Systemberatung > http://dkluenter.de > GPG Key ID:DA147B05 > 53°37'09,95"N > 10°08'02,42"E -- If builders built buildings the way Microsoft wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization. | |0| | Jobst Schmalenbach, jobst(a)barrett.com.au, General Manager | | |0| Barrett Consulting Group P/L & The Meditation Room P/L |0|0|0| +61 3 9532 7677, POBox 277, Caulfield South, 3162, Australia