RE: ldapadd: Naming violation & alias

[Darren Gamble <darren.gamble@sjrb.ca>]

Good day,

> >>A better solution (so the rfc should be respected) is to 
> pach ldapadd.
> >>In fact, the function entry_naming_check() in 
> servers/slapd/schema_check.c.

I've just come across this today, actually, when trying to migrate some data
to a server running 2.1.22 .

> >>What do you thing? Am I wrong?

This sure looks like a bug to me.

> OK. It is a solutition. But it forces us to change our 
> applications code...
> So I'd prefer that openldap 2.1.22 behaves like openldap 2.0 for this 
> point => patch.
> Another question: Does someone use alias with openldap 2.1? How?

The most recent OpenLDAP version that I tried to use aliases in was 2.1.5, I
think, and I don't remember having any such problem during the import.

Could someone help us with fixing this?  I'll be happy to try out CVS code.

Thanks,

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Darren Gamble
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