Re: OpenLDAP 2.0.1, netscape and userSMIMEcertificate

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

>On Wed, 13 Sep 2000, Karsten Künne wrote:
>> I tried to convince netscape to use a 2.0.1 server in order
>> to store and retrieve S/MIME-Certificates and I ran into
>> some problems. First, netscape was not able to store a
>> certificate because the server complained that "binary" is
>> not allowed for the userSMIMEcertificate attribute. After
>> changing the syntax of this attribute to
>> 1.3.6.1.4.1.1466.115.121.1.8 the server and netscape were
>> happy and the certificate (or whatever netscape sends there)
>> was stored. Now I wonder if there is any reason why the syntax
>> 1.3.6.1.4.1.1466.115.121.1.5 has no SLAP_SYNTAX_BINARY flag
>> but the other one has.

It's can be viewed as a bug (especially given the syntax
was labeled for binary transfer only).  I've changed this
in HEAD and OPENLDAP_REL_ENG_2.  This, of course, will
break any transfer of binary syntax without ";binary".