Add 'memberOf' attribute to ApacheDS

Question

I am trying to simulate Active Directory's memberOf attribute in Apache Directory. I have added the following entry for memberOf to my LDIF file:

dn: m-oid=1.3.6.1.4.1.18060.0.4.3.2.1,ou=attributeTypes,cn=other,ou=schema
m-usage: USER_APPLICATIONS
m-equality: distinguishedNameMatch
objectClass: metaAttributeType
objectClass: metaTop
objectClass: top
m-name: memberOf
m-oid: 1.3.6.1.4.1.18060.0.4.3.2.1
m-obsolete: FALSE
m-noUserModification: FALSE
m-syntax: 1.3.6.1.4.1.1466.115.121.1.27

When I start ApacheDS the following warning is logged:

   WARN  [ContainerBackgroundProcessor[StandardEngine[Catalina]]] entry.ServerStringValue - Cannot normalize the value :Encountered name based id of memberOf which was not found in the OID registry

This causes problems later on because my application tries to user the memberOf attribute as a search filter.

Is anything wrong with the way I specified the LDIF entry?

Answer 1

For my integration test cases on top of embedded Apache Directory Server I've added both memberOf and sAMAccountName attributes defined in Microsoft Active Directory server.

#########################################################
# MICROSOFT SCHEMA for sAMAccountName and memberOf
# these two attributes are not defined in Apache Directory Server
#########################################################

dn: cn=microsoft, ou=schema
objectclass: metaSchema
objectclass: top
cn: microsoft

dn: ou=attributetypes, cn=microsoft, ou=schema
objectclass: organizationalUnit
objectclass: top
ou: attributetypes

dn: m-oid=1.2.840.113556.1.4.221, ou=attributetypes, cn=microsoft, ou=schema
objectclass: metaAttributeType
objectclass: metaTop
objectclass: top
m-oid: 1.2.840.113556.1.4.221
m-name: sAMAccountName
m-equality: caseIgnoreMatch
m-syntax: 1.3.6.1.4.1.1466.115.121.1.15
m-singleValue: TRUE

dn: m-oid=1.2.840.113556.1.4.222, ou=attributetypes, cn=microsoft, ou=schema
objectclass: metaAttributeType
objectclass: metaTop
objectclass: top
m-oid: 1.2.840.113556.1.4.222
m-name: memberOf
m-equality: caseIgnoreMatch
m-syntax: 1.3.6.1.4.1.1466.115.121.1.15
m-singleValue: FALSE

dn: ou=objectclasses, cn=microsoft, ou=schema
objectclass: organizationalUnit
objectclass: top
ou: objectClasses

dn: m-oid=1.2.840.113556.1.5.6, ou=objectclasses, cn=microsoft, ou=schema
objectclass: metaObjectClass
objectclass: metaTop
objectclass: top
m-oid: 1.2.840.113556.1.5.6
m-name: simulatedMicrosoftSecurityPrincipal
m-supObjectClass: top
m-typeObjectClass: AUXILIARY
m-must: sAMAccountName
m-may: memberOf

#######################################################
# Megacorp employees
#######################################################

dn: cn=EmployeeABC,ou=nl_users,DC=corp,DC=megacorp,DC=COM
objectClass: top
objectClass: person
objectClass: organizationalPerson
objectClass: inetOrgPerson
objectclass: simulatedMicrosoftSecurityPrincipal
cn: EmployeeABC
sn: EmployeeABC
givenName: EmployeeABC
mail: EmployeeABC@megacorp.com
MEMBEROF: CN=just-users,OU=mc_groups,DC=corp,DC=megacorp,DC=com
MEMBEROF: CN=best-users,OU=mc_groups,DC=corp,DC=megacorp,DC=com
SAMACCOUNTNAME: employeeabc

Answer 2

The ApacheDS team is aware of the desire for the memberOf virtual attribute. They mention that it will be part of the 2.1.0 release:

Le 5/20/13 5:53 PM, Danielsen, Jay a écrit :

I see from the January 2013 archives that memberOf virtual attribute is not yet supported. Are there any plans or work-in-progress to support memberOf in an upcoming release ? Morst certainly in 2.1.0.

We are currently busy cleaning the 150 remaining issues before a 2.0.0-RC1 release, so I think this is something we can have in the next 6 months.

You can create a JIRA to request such a feature.

Thanks !

-- Regards, Cordialement, Emmanuel Lécharny www.iktek.com

And here is the JIRA request.

Answer 3

You may need to add the schema that contains 'memberOf' into the ApacheDS configuration.