Re: Duplicate cn entries

[Jon Roberts <jon@mentata.com>]

Howard Chu wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-openldap-software@OpenLDAP.org
> > [mailto:owner-openldap-software@OpenLDAP.org]On Behalf Of David Smith
>
>
> > Yes, I know that. What I was trying to ask was whether
> > OpenLDAP ensures
> > that no two entries for an attribute can be identical, like so:
> >
> > dn: cn=Johnny Doe,ou=People,dc=example,dc=com
> > objectClass: person
> > cn: joe
> > cn: joe
> > sn: Doe
>
> This sounds like a bug in OpenLDAP 2.0, duplicate values of an attribute
> should not exist. OpenLDAP 2.1 definitely disallows this situation.

Hmm. I just slapadded such an entry in 2.1.13 like the above (I put joe 
joe Jimmy Page in Congress) and was able to retrieve ldif data back via 
my gateway. Nary a complaint.

Jon Roberts
www.mentata.com