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Re: Different CN's for DN and CN.
Thanks for clearing that up!
It looks like I have a load of perl-coding so I can clear this up :(
On Mon, 2003-03-17 at 12:07, Jehan PROCACCIA wrote:
> Yes that's a new constraint comming with 2.1.14 and above ...(better
> respect to RFCs i supose)
> RDN attribute must be exactly the same (except respect of case) as the
> attributre difined in the object. in your case you must have:
>
> > dn: cn=myname, ou=people, dc=sws, dc=oldham, dc=uk, dc=net
> > cn: myname
> and NOT:
> > cn: My Name
>
> Andrew McCall wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have an OpenLDAP directory set up and it all works great. However
> > after explaining it to some other people who know about LDAP they
> > pointed out that I have a "problem" with the way my CN and DN are set
> > up.
> >
> > Here is how a typical entry would look :
> >
> > dn: cn=myname, ou=people, dc=sws, dc=oldham, dc=uk, dc=net
> > cn: My Name
> > sn: Primary School
> > ...
> > ... etc.
> >
> > You will notice that the dn: contains "myname" all one work, all lower
> > case for the cn part of the dn, but the cn: contains My Name, leading
> > cap's with a space for it.
> >
> > How does this work? Does this make the LDAP "wrong"?
> >
> > Everything works, but it just makes our naming convention a little
> > difficult to maintain, I am planning on changing the DN to hold the UID
> > rather than the CN, but some entries don't have a UID, so it means that
> > I will have a mixture or DN's with UID's and DN's with CN's.
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