Re: "Replacing" an attribute's value with "nothing"

["Stephane Cloutier" <scloutier@coginetwork.com>]

I've also face this issue some months ago.  I don't know if it would be fine
for you but our workaround was to replace the value with a space instead of
no character.  For us, this has no consequence and works well for both
servers.

Hope it helps,
Stephane

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mudry, Robert (N-aerotek)" <robert.mudry@lmco.com>
To: <openldap-software@OpenLDAP.org>
Sent: Friday, March 29, 2002 3:20 PM
Subject: "Replacing" an attribute's value with "nothing"


> Is there a way I can set an attribute in my schema to allow me to
"replace"
> its value with ""? (That's nothing) Most of our code was designed for the
> Netscape Directory Server, which allows replace operations of "". But
> OpenLDAP has been complaining:
>
> Return code: 21 Message: LDAP_INVALID_SYNTAX :Some part of the request
> contained
>  an invalid syntax. It could be a search
> with an invalid filter or a request to modify the schema and the given
> schema has a bad syntax.
> MessageID: 57   DN
>
> That's a Perl LDAP error message for: $mesg = $ldap->modify( $userdn,
> replace => {'mail' => "" });
>
> -Robert
>