Re: OID could not be expanded: "IA5String"

[Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com>]

Hallvard B Furuseth wrote:

> B M writes:
>  
>
> > /etc/openldap/schema/messageRecipient.schema: line 78: OID could not be
> > expanded: "IA5String"
> > (...)
> > could i just go through the file and replace IA5String with
> > 1.3.6.1.4.1.1466.115.121.1.26?
> >    
>
> Yes.
>
>  
>
> > to be quite honest i have no idea why this error is caused or why
> > OpenLDAP isn't recognizing IA5String
> >    
>
> It's just following the LDAP standard.  But why the standard only
> defines descriptions and not names for syntax OIDs I don't know.
>
>  
Definitely a mystery, especially since X.500 allowed names...

But you can always use the objectidentifier keyword in slapd.conf to 
handle this. See slapd.conf(5).

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