Re: Mistake in the doc ?

[Gavin Henry <ghenry@suretecsystems.com>]

----- "Vincent Panel" <yohonet@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Maybe I don't understand but, ÂI'm looking at  8.2.4.1 in this
> document : http://www.openldap.org/doc/admin22/schema.html
> 
> The goal is to create an attributetype called "myUniqueName" which is
> unique. With the last definition of this attributetype :
> 
> Âattributetype ( 1.1.2.1.1 NAME 'myUniqueName'
> Â Â Â Â Â Â Â ÂDESC 'unique name with my organization'
> Â Â Â Â Â Â Â ÂSUP name )
> 
> How can openldap guess that we cant a unique attributetype ?
> 
> Isn't there a SINGLE-VALUE missing at the end of the description ?

It's just talking about the name of the attribute, not the attribute value.

SINGLE-VALUE means attributes of this type are restricted to a single value, 
nothing about uniqueness.

Please have a read of doc/rfc/rfc4512.txt at your leisure.

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Gavin Henry.

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