Hi,
I am getting this exception:

javax.naming.directory.InvalidAttributeValueException: [LDAP: error code 21 - ob
jectClass: value #0 invalid per syntax]; remaining name 'dc=jndiTest'
        at com.sun.jndi.ldap.LdapCtx.mapErrorCode(Unknown Source)
        at com.sun.jndi.ldap.LdapCtx.processReturnCode(Unknown Source)
        at com.sun.jndi.ldap.LdapCtx.processReturnCode(Unknown Source)
        at com.sun.jndi.ldap.LdapCtx.c_createSubcontext(Unknown Source)
        at com.sun.jndi.ldap.LdapCtx.c_createSubcontext(Unknown Source)
        at com.sun.jndi.toolkit.ctx.ComponentContext.p_createSubcontext(Unknown
Source)
        at com.sun.jndi.toolkit.ctx.PartialCompositeContext.createSubcontext(Unk
nown Source)
        at com.sun.jndi.toolkit.ctx.PartialCompositeContext.createSubcontext(Unk
nown Source)
        at javax.naming.InitialContext.createSubcontext(Unknown Source)
        at MakeRoot.main(MakeRoot.java:35)

For the code:

import javax.naming.Context;
import javax.naming.InitialContext;
import javax.naming.NamingException;
import javax.naming.NameAlreadyBoundException;
import javax.naming.directory.*;
import java.util.*;
 
public class MakeRoot {
        final static String ldapServerName = "localhost";
        final static String rootdn = "cn=Manager, o=jndiTest";
        final static String rootpass = "secret";
        final static String rootContext = "o=jndiTest";
        
        public static void main( String[] args ) {
                // set up environment to access the server
                
                Properties env = new Properties();
                
                env.put( Context.INITIAL_CONTEXT_FACTORY,
                         "com.sun.jndi.ldap.LdapCtxFactory" );
                env.put( Context.PROVIDER_URL, "ldap://" + ldapServerName + "/" );
                env.put( Context.SECURITY_PRINCIPAL, rootdn );
                env.put( Context.SECURITY_CREDENTIALS, rootpass );
                
                try {
                        // obtain initial directory context using the environment
                        DirContext ctx = new InitialDirContext( env );
                        
                        // now, create the root context, which is just a subcontext
                        // of this initial directory context.
                        ctx.createSubcontext( rootContext );
                } catch ( NameAlreadyBoundException nabe ) {
                        System.err.println( rootContext + " has already been bound!" );
                } catch ( Exception e ) {
                        System.err.println( e );
                }
        }
}

What does the exception mean? What is the cause of this problem? Thanks in advance.

Please remove space between these 2 and try again.

"cn=Manager, o=jndiTest"

I tried that too. Initially I made both slapd.conf and this file with no space:

"cn=Manager,o=jndiTest"

As it didn't work so I included space. Does anyone know what does the error message mean? And why usually it happens so that I can recheck things.

The problem is due to the schema check. Even though the tutorial mentioned that mentioning "schemacheck off" in the slapd.conf would work. But it is not working as expected. I had to include "include ./schema/java.schema" to prevent this error. Though now I am seeing more errors (due to scheme check is not off. ie schemacheck off is not working).

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