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DIT CreationUsing the New Schema
AP Operation
The LDAP Data Interchange Format (LDIF) is used to represe nt
LDAP entries in a simple text format (please refer to RFC 2849). The
figure below illustrates an LDIF file that creates the DIT for the B051-
000 directory tree (shown in the figur e, above).
To use the new schema, do the following:
1. Save the new schema file (e.g., B051-000.schema) in the /
OpenLDAP/ schema/ directory.
2. Add the new schema to the slapd.conf file, as shown in the figure,
below:
The following figure illustrates an LDIF file that defines the
OpenLDAP group for the B051-000.
3. Restart the LDAP server.
4. Write the LDIF file and create the database entries i n init.ldif with
the ldapadd command, as shown in the following example:
ldapadd -f init.ldif -x -D “cn=Manager,dc=trip
plite,dc=com” -w secret