Re: Attribute not allowed when adding mail to person

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

development issues belong on openldap-devel list.

In short, slapd returns static error messages.  Supporting
dynamically generated error text would require significant
development.

At 08:27 PM 2/12/01 +0000, Brian S. Craigie wrote:

>Many Thanks for the info, folks. Will try out the suggestions.  :-)
>
>Does anyone want to volunteer to fix the unhelpful error message I
>mentioned? :-
>
>ldap_add: Object class violation
>         additional info: attribute not allowed.
>
>All it needs is some (should be simple) coding in
>servers/slapd/schema_check.c where instead of:
>
>     *text="attribute not allowed"
>
>you would have
>
>     mystring=sprintf("Attribute %s, %s not allowed",e->e_dn,type);
>     *text=mystring;
>
>(except that that isn't the right way to copy mystring into *text.  I
>tried strcpy but it made slapd core dump when it got to it so I did
>something wrong obviously.  Any takers?
>
>While the missing info does come up in debug mode, that's a bit overkill
>just to find out something the program could easily, and really ought
>to, tell you.  Don't you think?
>
>
>Best Regards,
> 
>Brian S. Craigie