Re: ldbmcat does not produce RFC2253 DN: lines (ITS#135)

[d.begley@nepean.uws.edu.au]

Earlier today, Julio Sánchez Fernández wrote:

> d.begley@nepean.uws.edu.au wrote:
> 
> > Speaking of LDAPv3, does the OpenLDAP Development Roadmap include the ability
> > to feed in new-style attributes/objects along the lines of RFC 2256 (ie.,
> > includes OIDs, syntax, &c.)?
> 
> Affirmative.  The exact details will have to be worked out, but work has
> started.  It is unclear, however, whether you will be able to add syntaxes,
> since they are little more than an OID and a long textual description about
> what they are supposed to mean.  In other words, complete support for a syntax
> requires code.

True.. aren't the syntaxes "fixed" though (ie., I thought I saw an RFC that
explained each of the possible syntax types for attributes)?  Or can anyone
essentially define their own syntaxes?


dave