Bug 422251

Summary:	Change in ldif format accepted by ldapmodify in openldap-2.4
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Mark McLoughlin <markmc>
Component:	openldap	Assignee:	Jan Safranek <jsafrane>
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Description Mark McLoughlin 2007-12-12 18:35:10 UTC

I haven't looked into this in enough detail to know whether this was intended,
but here's what I'm seeing.

Given an existing entry:

  dn: dc=markmc,dc=org
  objectClass: top
  objectClass: domain
  dc: markmc

and wanting to change it to:

  dn: dc=markmc,dc=org
  objectClass: top
  objectClass: domain
  objectClass: pilotObject
  dc: markmc
  info: foo

This worked with openldap-clients-2.3.38-3.fc8 as input to ldapmodify:

  dn: dc=markmc,dc=org
  changetype: modify
  add: objectClass
  objectClass: pilotObject
  info: foo

With openldap-clients-2.4.6-1.fc9, I get this:

  ldapmodify: wrong attributeType at line 5, entry "dc=markmc,dc=org"

Changing to the following works:

  dn: dc=markmc,dc=org
  changetype: modify
  add: objectClass
  objectClass: pilotObject
  -
  add: info
  info: foo

Comment 1 Jan Safranek 2008-01-14 12:24:54 UTC

ldapmodify in OpenLDAP-2.4 has new parser of ldif input, which is fast, but more
strict. It you announce that you want to add an attribute, you must add only
attribute of the announced type.

E.g. using this snippet:
    changetype: modify
    add: objectClass
you can add only objectClass attributes; info attribute results in the error you
see.