Making Entries from the Command Line

General information on how to create directory services entries is located in Chapter 5, "Loading and Maintaining Directory Information," in the Sun Directory Services 3.1 Administration Guide. This section presents instructions on how to create the directory entries required by Solaris ISP Server.

Creating Directory Entries: General Procedure

Sun Directory Services has the following command-line utilities for creating and modifying directory entries:

• ldapadd

• ldapmodify

• ldapdelete

These directory services command-line utilities require root access. They are fully documented in reference manual pages (section 1).

Both ldapadd and ldapmodify can take input from the command line or from a specified file. Because information for an entry can be rather lengthy and complex, the sections that follow describe the form requiring a text file.

In each case, creating an entry (or entries) requires the following steps:

1. Write a file specifying the entry or entries to be made in the directory. The format for this file is specified in the ldif(4) reference manual page.

2. Create the entry using ldapadd, specifying the file with the entry information.

In every case, the form of the ldapadd command should be:

ldapadd -D "BindDN" -w password -f file

Where BindDN is the distinguished name (DN) for binding to the directory with write access to this part of the directory tree, and password is the password for binding. Replace the file option with the name of the ldif file you have created.

Structure of an ldif(4) File

For each entry you add at the command line, you will create an entry in an ldif-format file to hold the information about the entry. These are simple text files with one or more directory entries each separated by a single blank line. Each entry has the structure of the following example.

Only mandatory attributes are shown in the example. Most object classes have a number of optional attributes that may be set appropriately for your particular use of the entry.

The example shows an entry for a record with the organizationalUnit object class. Other records with different object classes will have different attributes. The example is to show the format.

dn: ou=wcgate1,ou=eng,o=sun,c=US 
ou: wcgate1 
associateddomain: wcgate1.eng.sun.com  
objectclass: organizationalUnit
objectclass: domainRelatedObject

Where

dn

Indicates the distinguished name of the entry being created. Use the DN for your desired domain.

ou

Is the naming attribute of the entry being created. Common naming attributes include commonName, organizationalUnit (ou), and domainComponent (dc). Use the RDN for your domain.

associatedDomain

Contains the domain name (in dot notation) of the corresponding entry in the DC tree. Use the name of your domain.

See "Solaris ISP Server Directory Structure" for information on how the OSI tree and the DC tree interact. See "Creating Domain Entries" for instructions on creating the two cross-referenced entries for a domain.

There may be many attribute:value pairs in this position, one per line.

objectClass

Is the object class (type) of the entry. There may be many objectClass entries; this example shows two.

For more detailed information on available object classes and attributes, see Chapter 6, Solaris ISP Server Directory Schema of this guide, and Chapter 8, "Configuring the Directory Schema," of the Sun Directory Services 3.1 Administration Guide.

Creating Domain Entries

To create a domain in the directory, you must create two parallel domain entries, one in the OSI tree and one in the DC tree, and then create the required organizationalUnit entries under the domain entry in the OSI tree.

To create the domain wcgate1 under eng.sun.com, perform the following steps:

1. Edit a text file (for example, domain.ldif) and enter the data for the OSI tree entry:

   dn: ou=wcgate1,ou=eng,o=sun,c=US 
   ou: wcgate1
   associateddomain: wcgate1.eng.sun.com 
   objectclass: organizationalUnit 
   objectclass: domainRelatedObject 

   Note that the associatedDomain attribute of the entry contains the DNS name of the domain.

2. Add to domain.ldif the data for the DC tree entry:

   dn: dc=wcgate1,dc=eng,dc=sun,dc=com 
   dc: wcgate1
   associatedname: ou=wcgate1,ou=eng,o=sun,c=US 
   description: DNS-to-DN Mapping for wcgate1.eng.sun.com 
   labeleduri: ldap:///ou=wcgate1,ou=eng,o=sun,c=US??sub 
   objectclass: domain 
   objectclass: labeledURIObject

   Note that the associatedName attribute of the entry contains the distinguished name of the OSI tree entry. The labeledURI attribute contains the same information (as specified in RFC 2255).

3. Add to domain.ldif the data for the required Services organizational unit entry:

   dn: ou=Services,ou=wcgate1,ou=eng,o=sun,c=US 
   ou: Services 
   objectclass: organizationalUnit

4. Add to domain.ldif the data for the required People organizational unit entry:

   dn: ou=People,ou=wcgate1,ou=eng,o=sun,c=US 
   ou: People 
   objectclass: organizationalUnit 

5. Add to domain.ldif the data for the required Groups organizational unit entry:

   dn: ou=Groups,ou=wcgate1,ou=eng,o=sun,c=US 
   ou: Groups 
   objectclass: organizationalUnit

6. Save and close domain.ldif.

7. Add the entries to the directory with the following command, replacing the bind DN and password with your own:

   % ldapadd -D "cn=admin,o=sun,c=US" -w secret -f domain.ldif

When your ldapadd is complete, the directory looks like Figure 4-1.

Figure 4-1 Directory Structure with a Domain Added

Creating Group Entries

Before you can create group entries, a number of entries must already exist:

• The two domain entries (OSI and DC trees)

• The Group organizational unit entry

• The subscriber entries (under the People node) that will become the members of the group.

Once you have created those entries, you can start a text file (for example, groups.ldif) and enter the data for the group. A typical data set looks like the following:

dn: cn=isp-gp1,ou=Groups,ou=wcgate1,ou=eng,o=sun,c=US 
cn: isp-grp1
objectclass: groupOfNames
member: cn=Ed Anchor (anchor),ou=People,ou=wcgate1,ou=eng,o=sun,c=US 
member: cn=April Shower (showers),ou=People,ou=wcgate1,ou=eng,o=sun,c=US S
member: cn=Chili Jones (relleno),ou=People,ou=wcgate1,ou=eng,o=sun,c=US 

Where

dn

Is the distinguished name of the group to be created. Use a group name appropriate to your environment.

cn

Is the relative distinguished name of the group entry.

objectClass

The object class groupOfNames distinguishes this type of entry.

member

Each member attribute takes as its value the distinguished name of an existing subscriber entry.

You can create any number of group entries by adding data to the file. When it is complete, save and close groups.ldif. Add the groups to the directory with the following command, replacing the bind DN and password with your own:

% ldapadd -D "cn=admin,o=sun,c=US" -w secret -f groups.ldif