Re: Mistake in the doc ?

[Pierangelo Masarati <ando@sys-net.it>]

Vincent Panel wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 6:10 PM, Buchan Milne
> <bgmilne@staff.telkomsa.net> wrote:
> > On Friday 29 August 2008 17:02:01 Vincent Panel wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > Maybe I don't understand but,  I'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 :
> > >
> > >  attributetype ( 1.1.2.1.1 NAME 'myUniqueName'
> > >                DESC 'unique name with my organization'
> > >                SUP name )
> > >
> > > How can openldap guess that we cant a unique attributetype ?
> > I don't see anything in the document you refer to that implies that slapd will
> > enforce uniqueness on the attribute. It only states that organisations may
> > maintain a unique ID (but does not state how).
> >
> > > Isn't there a SINGLE-VALUE missing at the end of the description ?
> > Uniqueness is orthogonal to being multi-valued.
>
> Ok, I didn't quite understand the meaning of SINGLE-VALUE, I see now.
>
> But look at § 8.2.4.1 : in the first example, SINGLE-VALUE is
> specified and not in the second example. Is this because "name" is
> already single-valued ?

name is defined as a multiple-valued attribute in standard-track 
specifications.

p.


Ing. Pierangelo Masarati
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