LDAP How-to: create a new People entry and place it in a group?

[ozgwei]

I'm not familiar with LDAP except using JNDI to look up EJB homes and
data sources.

Now I have a task to create a People entry and put it in a group in
Java.

The entry should be:
dn: uid=user-id, ou=People, dc=company, dc=com
uid: user-id
givenName: given-name
objectClass: top
objectClass: person
objectClass: organizationPerson
objectClass: inetorgperson
sn: surname
cn: something
userPassword: password

And the new entry should be put into a group:
dn: cn=group-name, ou=People, ou=somename, dc=company, dc=com

All these dn, cn, sn, ou, dc things look strange to me as a novice.

Would anyone please kindly show me how to accomplish this in J2SE?

Thanks.

 

[Roland]

I'm not familiar with LDAP except using JNDI to look up EJB homes and
data sources.

Now I have a task to create a People entry and put it in a group in
Java.

The entry should be:
dn: uid=user-id, ou=People, dc=company, dc=com
uid: user-id
givenName: given-name
objectClass: top
objectClass: person
objectClass: organizationPerson
objectClass: inetorgperson
sn: surname
cn: something
userPassword: password

And the new entry should be put into a group:
dn: cn=group-name, ou=People, ou=somename, dc=company, dc=com

All these dn, cn, sn, ou, dc things look strange to me as a novice.

Would anyone please kindly show me how to accomplish this in J2SE?

Thanks.

Here's a link to an article describing how to manipulate LDAP through JNDI:
<http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-03-2000/jw-0324-ldap.html>

In the past I've used Netscape's LDAP JDK, which can manipulate LDAP
directly (i.e. not through JNDI). Use Google to find any references to
this Netscape JDK.

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Regards,

Roland de Ruiter
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[Roedy Green]

And the new entry should be put into a group:
dn: cn=group-name, ou=People, ou=somename, dc=company, dc=com

All these dn, cn, sn, ou, dc things look strange to me as a novice.

those are called "distinguished names" and they are also used in
certificates.

see http://docs.sun.com/source/816-5539-10/app_dn.htm