Problem with my ldap schema
 

Hi,

LDAP works fine for me with the schemas provided, but for simplicity's sake I created a custom schema to fit my particular needs.

I created the following schema in the /usr/local/etc/openldap/schema directory:

#####################################################################
# employee.schema -- Employee
# Basic schema to handle only necessary attributes and classes

# name
# This is the common name of an individual, ex: John Doe
attributetype ( 1.1.2.1.1
NAME 'name'
DESC 'common name'
EQUALITY caseIgnoreMatch
SUBSTR caseIgnoreSubstringsMatch
SYNTAX 1.3.6.1.4.1.1466.115.121.1.15 )

# email
# This is the individual's email address
attributetype ( 1.1.2.1.2
NAME 'email'
DESC 'primary email'
EQUALITY caseIgnoreMatch
SUBSTR caseIgnoreSubstringsMatch
SYNTAX 1.3.6.1.4.1.1466.115.121.1.15 )

# office
# This is the room number of the individual's office
attributetype ( 1.1.2.1.3
NAME 'office'
DESC 'office room number'
EQUALITY caseIgnoreMatch
SUBSTR caseIgnoreSubstringsMatch
SYNTAX 1.3.6.1.4.1.1466.115.121.1.15 )

# officePhone
# This is the office telephone number
attributetype ( 1.1.2.1.4
NAME 'officePhone'
DESC 'office phone number'
EQUALITY telephoneNumberMatch
SUBSTR telephoneNumberSubstringsMatch
SYNTAX 1.3.6.1.4.1.1466.115.121.1.50{32} )

# cellPhone
# Individual's cell number if necessary or applicable
attributetype ( 1.1.2.1.5
NAME 'cellPhone'
DESC 'cell phone number'
EQUALITY telephoneNumberMatch
SUBSTR telephoneNumberSubstringsMatch
SYNTAX 1.3.6.1.4.1.1466.115.121.1.50{32} )

# employee
# All personnel of eos
objectclass ( 1.1.2.2.3
NAME 'employee'
SUP top
STRUCTURAL
MUST ( name $ email )
MAY ( office $ officePhone $ cellPhone )
)
#####################################################################

I added the following line to the slapd.conf file:

include /usr/local/etc/openldap/schema/employee.schema

Here is my ldif file:

#####################################################################
dn: cn=test,dc=ldap,dc=sr,dc=unh,dc=edu
name: John Doe
email: jdoe @ example.com
office: Hull 338
officephone: 555 5555
cellphone: 123 1234
objectclass: employee
#####################################################################

When I run ldapadd I get this:

ldap_add: Undefined attribute type (17)
additional info: office: attribute type undefined

If I comment out that particular attribute then I get the same message for officephone and cellphone as well.

I'm completely at a loss. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.

At the risk of asking the obvious... did you restart slapd?

I seemed to have issues doing that. I tried /etc/rc.d/init.d/slapd restart but slapd doesn't seem to be in that directory for some reason. I'm sure there must be some other way to restart it. Any ideas?

In many cases, though the server is called slapd, the actual service command is ldap, so you could try /etc/init.d/ldap restart or service ldap restart

Thanks. I gave both of those a try and they both give me this:

Stopping slapd: [FAILED]
Starting slapd: [FAILED]

:-(

OK, if you try sudo cat /var/log/messages | grep slapd it should tell you why.
Since the daemon is not running, a start will do instead of a restart

grep returns nothing about slapd in messages. Trying a simple /etc/init.d/ldap start or service ldap start still fails to start slapd.

So it looks like my biggest issue right now is that I can't get slapd to restart (or start apparently). Anyone have any suggestions?

In /etc/openldap/slapd.conf, set loglevel to 256
Then, in a terminal, run sudo tail -f /var/log/messages
In another terminal run sudo service ldap start and switch back to the other term to see the messages.

I see a slapd.conf in /etc/openldap/ but I've been editing the one in /usr/local/etc/openldap/. Is that bad? When I add the line loglevel = 256 to that file and tail the logs and run /sbin/service ldap start nothing shows in the logs but I now get this message:

Checking configuration files for slapd: [FAILED]
could not stat config file "/etc/openldap/schema/employee.schema": No such file or directory (2)
slaptest: bad configuration file!

I moved everything over to /etc/openldap/ and edited that slapd.conf file. Now when I try to restart slapd I get this error:

/etc/openldap/slapd.conf: line 90: <suffix> invalid DN 21 (Invalid syntax)
slaptest: bad configuration file!

I checked my slapd.conf and my suffix is the same as it was before in my other conf file. I don't know what's wrong. This is starting to drive me crazy!

Can you attach the file?

Here's my slapd.conf