On Sat, Aug 16, 2014 at 5:31 AM, Noah Misch <n...@leadboat.com> wrote:
> When using pg_service.conf with LDAP, we document[1] the following sample LDIF
> for populating the LDAP server:
>
> version:1
> dn:cn=mydatabase,dc=mycompany,dc=com
> changetype:add
> objectclass:top
> objectclass:groupOfUniqueNames
> cn:mydatabase
> uniqueMember:host=dbserver.mycompany.com
> uniqueMember:port=5439
> uniqueMember:dbname=mydb
> uniqueMember:user=mydb_user
> uniqueMember:sslmode=require
>
> That presumably worked at one point, but OpenLDAP 2.4.23 and OpenLDAP 2.4.39
> both reject it cryptically:
>
> ldap_add: Invalid syntax (21)
>         additional info: uniqueMember: value #0 invalid per syntax
>
> uniqueMember is specified to bear a distinguished name.  While OpenLDAP does
> not verify that uniqueMember values correspond to known DNs, it does verify
> that the value syntactically could be a DN.  To give examples, "o=foobar" is
> always accepted, but "xyz=foobar" is always rejected: "xyz" is not an LDAP DN
> attribute type.  Amid the LDAP core schema, "device" is the best-fitting
> objectClass having the generality required.  Let's convert to that, as
> attached.  I have verified that this works end-to-end.

+1.

I've run into that problem as wel,l just not had time to prepare a
proper example in the core schema :)


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