Re: Non-numeric OIDs; iPlanet->openLDAP

[Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com>]

Michael.Smith@domino1.cuny.edu wrote:

> I was afraid of that. So (just to clarify) LDAP_SCHEMA_ALLOW_XX 
> etc. have no effect?
No, it has an effect.

> Is there any particular reason (if so) why they 
> remain in the codebase?
Other programs that use libldap may not have the same stringent 
requirements that slapd does.

> wrote: 
>
> Michael.Smith@domino1.cuny.edu wrote:
>
>  
>
> > What is the current state of play wrt the compile flags 
> > LDAP_SCHEMA_ALLOW_ALL et al.? I see some contradictory 
> > messages on the mailing list archives. 
> >
> > I'm particularly interested in allowing non-numeric OIDs 
> > in schema definitions -- not because I think it's a good 
> > idea, but because I need to import a schema originally 
> > created on an iPlanet server, which uses alphanumeric 
> > names for OIDs rather than dotted-decimal numbers.
> >
> >    
> slapd requires all schema elements to have numeric OIDs. It does allow 
> the use of alphanumeric macro names in certain places, but those names 
> must be resolvable to a numeric OID (see the "objectidentifier" ketword 
> in slapd.conf(5)).
>
>  


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