--On September 26, 2008 10:23:28 PM +0300 "Stelios A." <stelios.a(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: > Hello all, > > I have 2 users with identical Full Name and their ldif change on mail, > uid, username and home directory in order to avoid ldap constraints. > However, even though I have no other constraints apart from > unique_attributes uid mail uidNumber homeDirectory I'm getting the > following error and cannot add the 2nd user. > > root@masterldap:~# slapadd -l debug.ldif -f /etc/ldap/slapd.conf > => hdb_tool_entry_put: id2entry_add failed: DB_KEYEXIST: Key/data pair > already exists (-30996) > => hdb_tool_entry_put: txn_aborted! DB_KEYEXIST: Key/data pair already > exists (-30996) > slapadd: could not add entry dn="cn=Full > Name,ou=Users,dc=mydomain,dc=com" (line=1): txn_aborted! DB_KEYEXIST: > Key/data pair already exists (-30996) > root@masterldap:~# > > Any ideas how I can see which attribute is causing the problem? The problem attribute is "cn". Since you are using cn (and not uid, which I would advise) as the RDN value, they must be different. This is why using cn for an RDN value is a bad idea. --Quanah -- Quanah Gibson-Mount Principal Software Engineer Zimbra, Inc -------------------- Zimbra :: the leader in open source messaging and collaboration

Thanks a lot for your answer. Would you please let me know what do I need in order to use uid for example as the RDN value as I'm a little bit confused where to configure that.