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Re: (ITS#7493) slapo-allowed: allowed* attrs are replicated



> Michael Ströder wrote:
>> hyc@symas.com wrote:
>>> masarati@aero.polimi.it wrote:
>>>> On 01/15/2013 07:40 PM, michael@stroeder.com wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Please consider the attached patch which sets allowed
>>>>> "USAGE dSAOperation". This seems to be the most appropriate USAGE
>>>>> compara=
>>>>> ble
>>>>> to what's set for entryTTL in slapo-dds.
>>>>
>>>> No objection with this patch, since those properties were
>>>> "arbitrarily"
>>>> assigned to attributes defined by others to provide software
>>>> interoperability.  Unless anyone has objections, I'd commit it.
>>>
>>> Go ahead. Please add a comment about the origin of the schema
>>> definitions and
>>> these interoperability concerns.
>>
>> These attribute type descriptions were roughly taken from MS AD.
>
> I meant, please add a comment *in the patch* so it will remain in the
> source code.

There's already a detailed comment to this end in the related README,
which links the attribute definitions on <http://msdn.microsoft.com/>.

p.

>> Today I've checked the subschema of a W2K8R2 AD server:
>> I did not find a single attribute type description with USAGE although
>> there
>> were attribute types formally defined in RFCs. One example is 'entryTTL'
>> defined with "USAGE dSAOperation" in RFC 2589 which in fact was
>> co-authored by
>> Microsoft employees.
>>
>> The official Microsoft documentation is here [MS-ADA1]:
>>
>> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc219752.aspx
>>
>> Ciao, Michael.
>>
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Pierangelo Masarati
Associate Professor
Dipartimento di Ingegneria Aerospaziale
Politecnico di Milano