Damien Tougas a écrit :
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.
Thanks ! I hope that we won't deceive you at the end ;)
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
Hmmmm. This should not be a problem. OU are not supposed to be case
sensitive, so matchingRules or matchingrules or even MATCHINGRULES
should work.
Once that was fixed, the import worked without any errors.
Ah, so you mean that importing such an entry (with matchingrule in it)
caused an error? If so, this is a bug.
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.
Ohho... Another problem which needs investigation...
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...).
This is an option. You could have deleted the entry too, with
LdapStudio, for instance.
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?
Ok, I think we gonna have to test it. Give us a couple of hours, and
you'll get an answer.
Emmanuel
