deleting attribute of Active Directory

Hi All,

I'm trying to delete a "member" attribute of an Active Directory group with the following code:

Code:

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        DistinguishedName groupDN = getGroupDN(groupName);
        DistinguishedName userDN = getUserDN(userName);
        ModificationItem[] mods = new ModificationItem[1];
        mods[0] = new ModificationItem(DirContext.REMOVE_ATTRIBUTE, new BasicAttribute("member", userDN));
        ldapTemplate.modifyAttributes(groupDN, mods);

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And I'm getting the following error:

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net.sf.ldaptemplate.UncategorizedLdapException: Operation failed; nested exception is javax.naming.directory.InvalidAttributeValueExcept ion: Malformed 'member' attribute value; remaining name 'cn=HRAccessTest, cn=Users, dc=main, dc=chronossystems, dc=com'
Caused by: javax.naming.directory.InvalidAttributeValueExcept ion: Malformed 'member' attribute value; remaining name 'cn=HRAccessTest, cn=Users, dc=main, dc=chronossystems, dc=com'
at com.sun.jndi.ldap.LdapClient.encodeAttribute(LdapC lient.java:951)
at com.sun.jndi.ldap.LdapClient.modify(LdapClient.jav a:920)
at com.sun.jndi.ldap.LdapCtx.c_modifyAttributes(LdapC tx.java:1433)
at com.sun.jndi.toolkit.ctx.ComponentDirContext.p_mod ifyAttributes(ComponentDirContext.java:255)
at com.sun.jndi.toolkit.ctx.PartialCompositeDirContex t.modifyAttributes(PartialCompositeDirContext.java :172)2006-07-28 18:46:34,458 ERROR - APPLI9999 Exception class net.sf.ldaptemplate.UncategorizedLdapException : Operation failed; nested exception is javax.naming.directory.InvalidAttributeValueExcept ion: Malformed 'member' attribute value; remaining name 'cn=HRAccessTest, cn=Users, dc=main, dc=chronossystems, dc=com'

at javax.naming.directory.InitialDirContext.modifyAtt ributes(InitialDirContext.java:153)
at net.sf.ldaptemplate.LdapTemplate$9.executeWithCont ext(LdapTemplate.java:508)
at net.sf.ldaptemplate.LdapTemplate.executeWithContex t(LdapTemplate.java:408)
at net.sf.ldaptemplate.LdapTemplate.executeReadWrite( LdapTemplate.java:403)
at net.sf.ldaptemplate.LdapTemplate.modifyAttributes( LdapTemplate.java:505)
at com.chronossystems.HRAccess.GroupGenerator.LDAP.Ld apDAOImpl.deleteUserFromGroup(LdapDAOImpl.java:53)
at com.chronossystems.HRAccess.GroupGenerator.GroupGe nerator.processEmployeesInADGroup(GroupGenerator.j ava:122)
at com.chronossystems.HRAccess.GroupGenerator.GroupGe nerator.processReport(GroupGenerator.java:95)
at com.chronossystems.HRAccess.GroupGenerator.GroupGe nerator.generate(GroupGenerator.java:41)
at com.chronossystems.HRAccess.GroupGenerator.GroupGe nerator.main(GroupGenerator.java:207)
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The groupDN and userDN objects has been queried successfully and they seems ok. (groupDN = cn=HRAccessTest, cn=Users, dc=main, dc=chronossystems, dc=com, userDN = cn=Istvan Zsamboki, cn=Users, dc=main, dc=chronossystems, dc=com). The given group has a member attribute and the value of it is the dn of the given user.

My application context file is the following:

Code:

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE beans PUBLIC "-//SPRING//DTD BEAN//EN"
    "http://www.springframework.org/dtd/spring-beans.dtd">
<beans>
    <bean id="contextSource" class="net.sf.ldaptemplate.support.LdapContextSource">
        <property name="urls" value="ldap://main.chronossystems.com:389" />
        <property name="base" value="DC=chronossystems,DC=com" />
        <property name="userName" value="CN=Istvan Zsamboki,CN=Users,DC=main,DC=chronossystems,DC=com" />
        <property name="password" value="xxxxxx" />
        <property name="authenticatedReadOnly" value="true" />
        <property name="baseEnvironmentProperties">
            <map>
                <entry key="java.naming.referral" value="follow" />
            </map>
        </property>
    </bean>
    <bean id="ldapTemplate" class="net.sf.ldaptemplate.LdapTemplate">
        <constructor-arg ref="contextSource" />
    </bean>
    <bean id="ldapDAO" class="com.chronossystems.HRAccess.GroupGenerator.LDAP.LdapDAOImpl">
        <property name="ldapTemplate" ref="ldapTemplate" />
        <property name="base" value="DC=chronossystems,DC=com" />
    </bean>
</beans>

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What is wrong?

Thanks in advance,
zsazsa

You are supplying a DistinguishedName object as the attribute value to the ModificationItem, while the actual attribute values are Strings.

Try:

Code:

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mods[0] = new ModificationItem(DirContext.REMOVE_ATTRIBUTE, new BasicAttribute("member", userDN.encode()));

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That should work.

Yes, it works, thank you.

Unfortunately I got full dn to the groupDN and it did not worked in this way. I had to remove the baseDN from the end of groupDN before calling modifyAttributes. I hope this is the normal working of the ldapTemplate.

Regards,
Istvan

If you have supplied a base DN in the ContextSource configuration, the base should be stripped from all DistinguishedNames in the code (Not the attribute value; that needs to be the full DN). That really has nothing to do with LdapTemplate, it's just plain LDAP :).