[nzlug] Bootstrapping LDAP

[Daniel Pittman]

Martin D Kealey <martin at kurahaupo.gen.nz> writes:
> On Thu, 4 Jan 2007, Daniel Pittman wrote:

[...]

> For the sake of this argument, assume it's "create a new address book".
>
> In fact I'm building a custom schema for an unrelated application, but
> this would be enough to start with.
>
> Really this problem isn't about what goes into the database
> eventually, it's about how to insert the bootstrap records.

OK.  The install process should have prompted for, and created, the
admin DN, something like 'cn=admin,dc=rimspace,dc=net', and assigned a
password for you.

The next step is to build a suitable LDIF file to load your records.
You need to make sure this defines the basic holding place first, in
most cases, such as this:

  dn: ou=user,dc=rimspace,dc=net
  objectClass: organizationalUnit
  objectClass: top
  ou: user

Then, under that create the records for your objects:

  dn: cn=myrecord,ou=user,dc=rimspace,dc=net
  objectClass: myObjectClass
  objectClass: top
  cn: myrecord
  myField: myValue

Then you should be able to load that into the database using a command
like this:

  ldapadd -n -x -D cn=admin,dc=rimspace,dc=net -W -f mydata.ldif

Drop the '-n' when it actually works.  That will prompt you for the
password for your admin entity; substitute the details you gave at
install time.

I hope that answers your question.

Regards,
        Daniel
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