Re: LDIF and structural objectclasses

[Daniel Tiefnig <dantie@gmx.at>]

Michael Ströder wrote:
> Daniel Tiefnig wrote:
>  > 1) Why are userpassword attributes always encoded in base64 in

> I guess that's because userPassword is defined with SYNTAX 
> 1.3.6.1.4.1.1466.115.121.1.40 (Octet String) in OpenLDAP's schema.

Hmm, good point, allthough I thought, that base64 coding is just used 
for output in LDIF syntax, and SYNTAX definition shouldn't interfere 
with LDIF in that way, should it? I have to think about that a little 
bit, i think. :o)

> Note that it's up to the LDIF creator which notation to use. Any 
> attribute MAY be base64-encoded and your LDIF parser has to handle that.

Well, that's okay for me, I was just wondering why it is this way..

> If you wanna parse LDIF use an appropriate module for your favourite 
> programming language which correctly handles all the stuff defined in 
> RFC2849 (e.g. module ldif in package python-ldap...:-)

Ah, no. I'm happily using PerLDAP without any problems so far, it's just 
that I'm writing up a short introduction to LDAP (and OpenLDAP) to be 
held at Linuxdays[0] here in Graz, (Austria) and I found those mentioned 
things a little bit, uhm, confusing. :o)


lg,
daniel

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