Java LDAP - Add group to user issue - Error code 53 - WILL_NOT_PERFORM [duplicate]

Question

I am trying to add an user into Active Directory.
Having in mind:

• Using SSL
• Certificate ok
• Password works fine

With out group association, the user is correctly created.

When I try to associate the user to a group I get the following error:
javax.naming.OperationNotSupportedException: [LDAP: error code 53 - 0000209A: SvcErr: DSID-031A1021, problem 5003 (WILL_NOT_PERFORM), data 0

I have used the DN and NAME group attributes but none worked. My code is:

    ctx = getContext();
    ctx.createSubcontext(entryDN,entry); // it works fine

    Attribute memberOf1 = new BasicAttribute("memberOf","NAME_OF_THE_GROUP");
    Attributes atts     = new BasicAttributes();
    atts.put(memberOf1);
    ctx.modifyAttributes(entryDN, LdapContext.ADD_ATTRIBUTE, atts); // ## it doesn't work

I tried LdapContext.ADD_ATTRIBUTE and LdapContext.REPLACE_ATTRIBUTE. Also, I tried to add the group with the other attributes but all situation gave me the same error.

Does anyone have any idea what is going on?

Cheers!

Answer 1

memberOf is a constructed attribute. You have to add the user to the group's member property, not add the group to the user's memberOf property.