[Freedombox-discuss] Creating LDAP user failed.

[permondes - sagen]

Am Mittwoch, den 22.11.2017, 21:51 +0100 schrieb permondes - sagen:
> Am Mittwoch, den 22.11.2017, 20:57 +0100 schrieb permondes - sagen:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > creating a User in Plinth 0.16 gives this feedback:
> > * Creating LDAP user failed.
> > * User hahaha created.
> > 
> > Changing the password afterwards fails the LDAP operation but works
> > successful (as 2nd message).
> > 
> > Issue is, that I am trying to set up another user for a radicale
> > calendar. Trying to create the calendar in Evolution or DAVDroid
> > gives an authentication error, so I presume it is related to the
> > LDAP error. Is this right?
> > 
> > I have the feeling I had this issue before and managed to resolve
> > it with the list, but cannot find any trace how I did this.
> > 
> > 	Dietmar
> 
> If I assign groups to the user, there are additional error messages:
> * Failed to add new user to admin group.
> 
> * Failed to add new user to wiki group.
>   
> _______________________________________________

I just found the log file  plith/status.log:
> [2017-11-22 22:03:52,123] plinth.actions INFO     Executing command -
> ['sudo', '-n', '/usr/share/plinth/actions/users', 'create-user',
> 'newuser']
> [2017-11-22 22:03:54,620] plinth.actions ERROR    Error executing
> command - ['sudo', '-n', '/usr/share/plinth/actions/users', 'create-
> user', 'newuser'], , Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/share/plinth/actions/users", line 371, in <module>
>     main()
>   File "/usr/share/plinth/actions/users", line 367, in main
>     subcommand_method(arguments)
>   File "/usr/share/plinth/actions/users", line 225, in
> subcommand_create_user
>     _run(['ldapadduser', arguments.username, 'users'])
>   File "/usr/share/plinth/actions/users", line 357, in _run
>     return subprocess.run(arguments, **kwargs)
>   File "/usr/lib/python3.6/subprocess.py", line 418, in run
>     output=stdout, stderr=stderr)
> subprocess.CalledProcessError: Command '['ldapadduser', 'newuser',
> 'users']' returned non-zero exit status 1.

and in ldapscripts.log:
> Nov 22 22:03:53 freedombox ldapscripts: ldapadduser(root):
> /usr/sbin/ldapadduser newuser users
> SASL/EXTERNAL authentication started
> SASL username:
> gidNumber=0+uidNumber=0,cn=peercred,cn=external,cn=auth
> SASL SSF: 0
> No such object (32)
> Matched DN: dc=thisbox
> SASL/EXTERNAL authentication started
> SASL username:
> gidNumber=0+uidNumber=0,cn=peercred,cn=external,cn=auth
> SASL SSF: 0
> SASL/EXTERNAL authentication started
> SASL username:
> gidNumber=0+uidNumber=0,cn=peercred,cn=external,cn=auth
> SASL SSF: 0
> ldap_add: No such object (32)
> 	matched DN: dc=thisbox
>   -> Error adding user newuser to LDAP

So the error is "No such object"
On the web I found the answer: "You need to add an entry for
dc=nerdbot,dc=net. You are trying to add
branches to a tree with no root."
So my configuration file is broken. How can I fix this?
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