Why does this ldapadd command quit with an "Invalid syntax" error?
Your problem is undoubtedly that you need to load the nis
schema into your LDAP server. How to do this depends on whether your are using the legacy slapd.conf
configuration file or the newer dynamic configuration hosted in cn=config
and backed by a slapd.d
directory.
Using slapd.conf
You will need to include
the schema definition in your slapd.conf
by adding a line along the lines of:
include /usr/local/etc/openldap/schema/nis.schema
This assumes that the nis.schema
file is located at that path; if not, modify the path appropriately.
You will need to restart slapd
to activate the new schema.
Using slapd.d
(I'm including this for completeness, although it's not directly relevant to your current configfuration).
To load a schema into slapd
if you're using the dynamic cn=config
configuration, you would use ldapadd
. Depending on how your ACLs are configured, the command might look like this:
ldapadd -Y EXTERNAL -H ldapi:// -f /usr/local/etc/openldap/schema/nis.ldif
This assumes that your running slapd
has an ACL permitting "peer credentials" authentication to root
. If that doesn't work, you would need to provide an appropriate bind DN and password using -D
and -W
.
There is no restart required in this case.