Re: inappropriate SUPerior...?

[Michael Ströder <michael@stroeder.com>]

E. M. Recio wrote:
> I tried to SUP "uid" ie:
>
> attributeType ( 1.3.6.1.4.1.5923.1.1.1.4
>  NAME 'eduPersonOrgUnitDN'
>  DESC 'Department Representing Person'
>  SUP uid
>  EQUALITY caseIgnoreIA5Match
>  SUBSTR caseIgnoreIA5SubstringsMatch
>  SYNTAX 1.3.6.1.4.1.1466.115.121.1.26{35}
>  )
>
> Does anyone know why this gives the following error:
>
> Starting slapd: /usr/local/etc/openldap/schema/eduperson.schema: line 
> 38: AttributeType inappropriate SUPerior: "eduPersonOrgUnitDN"

What's the rationale for sub-classing 'uid'? I'm not an expert for 
'eduPerson' but I would avoid screwing up 'eduPersonOrgUnitDN'. Especially 
it differs from 'uid' in syntax and semantics.

> It worked fine under 2.0.27, but failed to be read when I upgraded.

Fortunately OpenLDAP 2.1 does stricter checking revealing schema errors. 
Some people might have a different opinion but I think stricter checking is 
 good news.

Ciao, Michael.