Hello,
I am in the process of checking out the directory server for the first
time. I am by no means an LDAP expert, but so far I like what I am
seeing here. My end goal for this testing is to create a shared address
book using the mozillaAbPersonAlpha schema:
http://wiki.mozilla.org/MailNews:Mozilla_LDAP_Address_Book_Schema
I was able to open the schema in LDAP Studio and export it to an LDIF.
The first problem I encountered was that the exported LDIF had a typo
which caused the import to fail. The typo was in this section (note the
spelling of "matchingRules" in the dn):
dn: ou=macthingRules, cn=moz, ou=schema
objectclass: organizationalUnit
objectclass: top
ou: matchingrules
Once that was fixed, the import worked without any errors.
The next problem I encountered was the fact that the directory server
didn't know what to do with the syntax lengths. This problem did not
show up when I did the import, but it caused exceptions to get thrown
when re-starting the directory server.
To deal with that problem I simply removed the syntax length definitions
from the exported LDIF (i.e. removed {128} etc.) and did the import
again (I first had to delete the schemas partition directory in order to
be able to do this, I am not sure if there is a better way...).
After doing all of that, everything appears to be fine. I cannot,
however, see the mozillaAbPersonAlpha object class show up in the list
when trying to add a new entry using LDAP Studio. Is there anything else
I need to be doing in order to make this new schema active for a
particular partition?
Thanks for your help!
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Damien Tougas
