[KLUG Members] Pesky LDAP

[Jim C]

OK I got the system to except the dn but it kicked out due to the
absence of a definition for an attribute.  This clued me in on the fact
that the schema needs quite a bit of extending.  I found the following
site which talks about how to go about doing this:

http://www.yolinux.com/TUTORIALS/LinuxTutorialLDAP-GILSchemaExtension.html

Problem is that it reccomends makeing the following changes to the
following files:

 >  Edit file: /etc/openldap/schema/cosine.schema  Change the lines:
 >
 >      Change: NAME ( 'mobile' 'mobileTelephoneNumber' )
 >          to: NAME ( 'mobile' 'mobileTelephoneNumber' 'cellPhone' )
 > Also change: NAME ( 'pager' 'pagerTelephoneNumber' )
 >          to: NAME ( 'pager' 'pagerTelephoneNumber' 'pagerPhone' )
 >
 >
 > Edit file: /etc/openldap/schema/core.schema Change the lines:
 >
 >      Change: attributetype ( 2.5.4.20 NAME 'telephoneNumber'
 >          to: attributetype ( 2.5.4.20 NAME ( 'telephoneNumber' 
'xmozillaanyphone' )

Now what I've heard is that you should never edit the distributed
schemas. Rather you should create your own schema file and append it.
Consequently, I made files with the appropriate changes and copied them 
to /etc/openldap/schema/ The original files were left at 
/usr/share/openldap/schema/.  When I tried to include them in slapd.conf 
I got errors such that other dependant schemas could not find parent 
clases etc.

Now it seems to me that the simple addition of a name shouldn't affect 
other schemas in this manner.  Since it does seem to however, can't I 
just specify an alias in local.schema and then include local.schema in 
slapd.conf?  Can I get an example of how to do this?


Adam Williams wrote:
 >>Greetings.  I am new on the list.  My troubles are primarily in the LDAP
...
 >
 > or maybe a multivalued dn
 > cn=MyTestUser+mail=Dude@spudly.com,ou=Addressbook,dc=example,dc=net
 >
 > but I think the latter gets pretty unreadable after awhile.