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(ITS#5236) core.ldif differs from core.schema



Michael Ströder wrote:
> HI!
> 
> following up on this because some older schema files reference
> 'countryName' (and worked with RE23).
> 
> Howard Chu wrote:
>> I'm puzzled why RFC4519 drops the 'countryName' alias for this type
>> from the RFC2256 definition.
> 
> Me too...
> 
> How to deal with that (except changing the schema files of other vendors)?

After chatting with Kurt, we confirmed that there was no reason to drop the 
alias from our schema files, so I've restored it. (Implementations are allowed 
to recognize multiple names for the same attribute. Since slapd still only 
generates the canonical name in its output, we are still conformant.)
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   -- Howard Chu
   Chief Architect, Symas Corp.  http://www.symas.com
   Director, Highland Sun        http://highlandsun.com/hyc/
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