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Re: Q: How can I use a different core.schema with 2.3.x?





--On Monday, January 23, 2006 2:49 PM -0800 Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com> wrote:

Kevin Spicer wrote:
On Mon, 2006-01-23 at 14:25 -0500, Mark Swanson wrote:

The problem is that other software allows basic text strings for
attributes like telephoneNumber. I can't blame a user for using it as a
string if the software lets them. Unless Outlook/cell phones, etc..
force users to use the LDAP syntax users aren't going to do it on their
own. Since Outlook/cell phones/etc.. have not forced this behaviour in
the past telephoneNumbers will never be in the RFC syntax.


One suggestion, could you create a custom schema that defines those attributes that you want to deviate from the core, but with a prefix. e.g. telephoneNumber becomes myTelephoneNumber. You could then (I think) use the rewrite overlay (slapo-rwm) to map requests for telephoneNumber to myTelephoneNumber. Note that I've never actually done this (just trying to throw an idea in), perhaps someone with some practical experience of the overlay could comment on whether this would be a practical solution.

Probably not, the front end does normalization of e.g. search filters and
other parameters first, before overlays are run.
Defining your own schema is still a viable approach; you just have to
reconfigure the client software to use your schema elements.

And I wish you luck there, since most people who write LDAP clients don't actually understand LDAP or schemas or standards (and guess how this whole thread got started). Anyhow, this has now diverged to off-topic, so that's it from me. ;)



--Quanah


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