Following the LDAP Part 2 article

First time I tried using my own info, but then got the error. Then I tried just straight copying pasting out of the article and restarting slapd, same error.


For now I'd trying to use:
/usr/local/openldap/bin/ldapadd -x -D "cn=root,dc=melonfire,dc=com" -W

then it prompts for a pass, I didn't change it from secret, but when I type that in I get invalid credentials(49)


I've tried googling and what not, nothing.

Are you sure your user DN is correct? Also if your host isn't localhost you'll want to add the -h option. If everything is correct try with -w (I think) add put your password on the command line, don't do this normally but you can use it to see if your password is really the problem or not.

does OpenLDAP expect a DNS server to be up and running on the network?

it needs to be able to find the server, if the ldap server isn't on the same server as you are running that command from then you need to use the -h option and put the server there, either by hostname or ip

yeah I fixed the credintials thing now It says it can't contact the LDAP server, even when I do the -h localhost arg. Here's the command line:

[root@titan root]# /usr/local/openldap/bin/ldapadd -x -D "cn=root,dc=melonfire,dc=com" -W
Enter LDAP Password:
ldap_bind: Can't contact LDAP server (81)

is it trying to resolve melonfire.com on my network?

I'd say it looks more like a wrong password situation but I could be wrong

well my root pass is set to what I'm trying to put in in both linux and slapd.conf

have you tried connecting with another program besides the command line? perhaps try http://www.ldapadministrator.com/download/index.php try out either the admin version or just the browser and see if you can connect

I got the password to work now but I'm having trouble with adding entries:

[root@titan root]# /usr/local/openldap/bin/ldapadd -x -D "cn=root,dc=melonfire,dc=com" -W -f entries.ldif -c
Enter LDAP Password:
adding new entry "dc=melonfire, dc=com"
ldapadd: update failed: dc=melonfire, dc=com
ldap_add: Naming violation (64)
additional info: value of naming attribute 'dc' is not present in entry

adding new entry "mail=root@melonfire-mail.com, dc=melonfire, dc=com"
ldapadd: update failed: mail=root@melonfire-mail.com, dc=melonfire, dc=com
ldap_add: No such object (32)

adding new entry "mail=joe@melonfire-mail.com, dc=melonfire, dc=com"
ldapadd: update failed: mail=joe@melonfire-mail.com, dc=melonfire, dc=com
ldap_add: No such object (32)

adding new entry "mail=sarah@melonfire-mail.com, dc=melonfire, dc=com"
ldapadd: update failed: mail=sarah@melonfire-mail.com, dc=melonfire, dc=com
ldap_add: No such object (32)

[root@titan root]#

read this thead http://forums.devshed.com/t63488/s.html it has resoureses that should help you understand an ldiff file ie

http://developer.netscape.com/docs/...dmin30/ldif.htm

the ldif file came straight off the site

It would appear that you are trying to add the dc=melonfire through the LDIF file?

You may find that you could have created the base suffix as dc=melonfire,dc=com - instead of just dc=com?

At any rate - your ldif for upload to add a domain component should have following information ... at a minumum ...

dn: dc=melonfire,dc=com
changetype: add
objectClass: top
objectClass: domain
dc: melonfire

HTH