Re: adding attributes to an existing object class

[Jim Howell <jwh2@cornell.edu>]

Hi,
        Thanks for the reply, I suspected that is what I was going hear, 
if others are indeed adding attributes to an existing objectclass I'd like 
to hear about..
Jim

At 11:52 AM 7/31/2000 -0400, Anthony Dean wrote:
> Jim Howell wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >         I'm still abit new to LDAP so please bear with me here.  I've 
> read a bunch
> > from the list archives as to how to add a new objectclass by using your own
> > local.oc.conf and local.at.conf files and including them in the slapd.conf
> > which seems straightforward enough.  However I'd like to know if anyone has
> > added attributes to an existing objectclass, for example adding the
> > "campus_phone" attribute to the "person" objectclass.  Thanks in advance
> > for any help you can offer.
> > Jim Howell
>
> Most of the existing objectclasses are already a defacto standard; if
> you want to add to one I would copy it and add whatever you want to the
> copy.  That way if you ever switch LDAP implementations you won't have
> to modify it, you just continue to use your own objectclass.
>
> Anthony Dean