Re: symbolic syntax definition (ITS#1907)

[Kurt@OpenLDAP.org]

The server knows no symbolic names for syntaxes.  In
LDAP, syntaxes are generally referred to by OID.  You
can, of course, add OID macros (see slapd.conf) if
you prefer to use symbolic names.

Kurt


At 07:53 AM 2002-06-25, h.nardmann@secunet.de wrote:
>Full_Name: Heiko Nardmann
>Version: 2.0.25
>OS: Solaris 8
>URL: ftp://ftp.openldap.org/incoming/
>Submission from: (NULL) (194.112.101.130)
>
>
>I am trying to use the string "Binary" as a syntax definition as follows:
>
>attributetype ( my-attributetype:1 NAME 'my-attributetype' SYNTAX 'Binary' )
>
>Then I get:
>
>Unexpected token before
>
>I also tried
>
>attributetype ( my-attributetype:1 NAME 'my-attributetype' SYNTAX Binary )
>
>Then I get:
>
>OID Binary not recognized