[Fedora-directory-users] adding user programmatically

[Derek Alexander]

> That usually means the password is not correct.  What do the Fedora DS
> access and error logs say?

Nothing! Turns out credentials were correct but the old IP address
was still there. With that corrected, the code works fine now.

Cheers,
Derek




Richard Megginson wrote:
> Derek Alexander wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>>
>> Am switching over from OpenLDAP to Fedora DS.
>>
>> The Java code that was creating user entries in OpenLDAP isn't working
>> with
>> Fedora DS and I thought perhaps the reason would be obvious to someone
>> out there.
>>
>> This is what was working with OpenLDAP:
>>
>>             dirContext = new InitialDirContext(anonymousEnv);
>>
>>             // need to be administrator to do this
>>             dirContext.addToEnvironment(Context.SECURITY_PRINCIPAL,
>> ADMIN_DN);
>>            
>> dirContext.addToEnvironment(Context.SECURITY_CREDENTIALS,ADMIN_PWD);
>>
>>             // ref: RFC 2798
>>             // the inetOrgPerson represents people who are associated
>> with an organization in some way.
>>             // mandatory attributes for inetOrgPerson are: cn,
>> objectClass, sn
>>
>>             Attribute ocAttr = new BasicAttribute("objectClass", "top");
>>             ocAttr.add("person");
>>             ocAttr.add("organizationalPerson");
>>             ocAttr.add("inetOrgPerson");
>>
>>             // create the attribute set
>>             Attributes attrs = new BasicAttributes(true); // as LDAP
>> attribute names are case-insensitive
>>             attrs.put(ocAttr);
>>             attrs.put("cn", username);
>>             attrs.put("sn", username); // not relevant but mandatory
>> and can't put "" in there
>>             attrs.put("userPassword", password);
>>             attrs.put("uid", uid);
>>
>>             // create entry in directory
>>             logger.debug("About to create subcontext: "+dn);
>>             accountContext = dirContext.createSubcontext(dn, attrs);
>>
>> Error I'm getting with Fedora DS at the last line of that code is:
>>
>> javax.naming.AuthenticationException: [LDAP: error code 49 - Invalid
>> Credentials]
>>   
> 
> That usually means the password is not correct.  What do the Fedora DS
> access and error logs say?
> 
>>
>> Have tried with ldapadd from the command line to create a user entry
>> with all the same values and
>> that works ok, so I'm a bit puzzled why the code doesn't work here.
>>
>> If anyone has any ideas, would appreciate them.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Derek
>>
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