Re: Error adding a Net::LDAP::Entry object

[Jonathon P. <jpa...@ho...>]

On Fri, 27 Sep 2002 15:53, Chris Ridd wrote:
> On 27/9/02 3:03 am, Jonathon Padfield <jpa...@ho...> wrote:
> > The error given is:
> > Failed to add entry: addRequest.addRequest.objectName is undefined at
> > /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/Net/LDAP/Message.pm line 163
> >
> It may not be the cause of your problem, but 'Unknown' is not a legal value
> for telephoneNumber, mobile, or facsimileTelephoneNumber, and if your
> server is following the standards it should reject attempts to set these
> values.

It accepted 'Unknown' without complaint. That was using the default openldap 
schema files as come with Redhat 7.3. I'm simply not including such 
attributes anymore, which also works, but better.

> I see you're setting an attribute called 'dn'. That's not the way you
> specify the DN of an entry in standard servers - you need to specify the DN
> of an entry when you add it, ie the first argument to the $ldap->add()
> method. The arguments to pass to add ought to be documented in the man
> page.

Thank you, that was the problem :) My error was in going from an ldif to a 
hash, I assumed it was a straight conversion.

Could I also suggest adding a line in the Net::LDAP::Entry manpage that 
explicity sets the dn after creating an object and before doing an update in 
the given example code. I don't know if you could do an update otherwise.

-Jon