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Re: How to replace account with inetOrgPerson?

John Kane wrote:
> IF your goal is to simply add the 'mail' attr to existing accounts, why not
> just use the extensibleObject objectClass to each account.  Once that is
> added, you should be able to add the needed attribute.  This is what I did
> and it seems to work fine.

extensibleObject allows any attribute in an entry! This circumvents schema
checking.

> To the OpenLDAP gurus; should this method not be used?

I consider it bad practice.

Ciao, Michael.