RE: normalized DN

["Kurt D. Zeilenga" <Kurt@OpenLDAP.org>]

>I've hit another problem - sometimes attributes that appear in a DN are
>actually case sensitive. But openldap always normalizes DNs to all upper
>case, so the original case of certain RDN values is lost. Some of the
>backends we've written relied on the backend suffix being saved in its
>original mixed case, and for various reasons they no longer work when given
>all upper-case suffixes to use. Has anyone else run into any problems of
>this sort? Would anyone be opposed to storing original as well as upcased
>copies of the suffixes that are configured per backend?

Like entries, we should store both "original" and "uppercased normalized"
suffixes.  Our current DN handling should probably be modified such
that the matched DN returns the "original" DN and not the "uppercased
normalized DN".

Kurt