Re: [Fwd] creating LDAP entries

[Chris R. <chr...@me...>]

Graham Barr <gb...@po...> wrote:
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> Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 08:34:56 -0700
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> From: "Paul Jones" <PJ...@no...>
> Subject: creating LDAP entries
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> Graham,
> 
> This looks like an excellent module.  I have a question about creating
> entries though.  How do I specify what type of entry to enter? ie. How do
> I specify that I want to create a 'group' object, or 'user' object, or
> any other type of object?  Other than that, I think this might be a very
> useful tool.  If I am writting to the wrong place, please let me know who
> I should contact.
> 
> Thank you,
> 
> 
> Paul Jones
> Developer Support
> Novell, Inc., the leading provider of Net services software
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> 
> 
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You need to have some understanding of the schema provided by your
directory server. Most servers implement the schema described in RFC 2256,
so you should get a copy of that and work out what objectclasses map to
what you're trying to model. It isn't terribly descriptive though - the
X.521 standard actually describes the standard objectclasses a lot better,
so you might want to look for your copy of X.521. (You can drafts of it
from ftp://ftp.bull.com/pub/OSIdirectory/)

For example, the standard objectclasses 'groupOfNames' and
'groupOfUniqueNames' are typically used to represent groups.

'User's might use the 'person' or 'organizationalPerson' objectclass if the
user's a person, or something like 'applicationEntity' if it is a program
of some type. There's another RFC - 2798 - that defines 'inetOrgPerson',
which is another way to describe a person.

Cheers,

Chris