Re: OpenLDAP schema

[Djoko Triana <joko3ana@gmail.com>]

 it's posible to create own schema ?

 
> On 4/26/05, Mike Jackson <mj@sci.fi> wrote:
> > Ron Wheeler wrote:
> >
> > > The OpenLDAP schema element such as OpenLDAPorg and OpenLDAPperson
> > > seem to be particularly useful and well thought out and OpenLDAP seems
> > > to be the most popular Linux LDAP implementation.
> > >
> > > However, no one seems to recommend or discuss using the OpenLDAP
> > > schema elements.
> > > What is the downside of basing my repository on these objectclasses
> > > rather than the more commonly used objectclasses?
> >
> > To the extent that you can consider them to be "vendor supplied schema",
> > they should generally not be used in production, unless
> > they are only serving to integrate with other products from the same
> > vendor. The reason for this is that it normally causes
> > "vendor lock-in" when you use vendor schema, since non GPL vendor
> > supplied schema most likely can't be used if you switch
> > LDAP server vendors (copyright reasons).
> >
> > In this case, however, the only problem that you would run into if you
> > decided to switch "vendors" and use, e.g. Redhat Directory
> > Server is that the format of the schema files are slightly different and
> > the OL schema files would need to be ported. But it's a small job.
> >
> > BR,
> > --
> > mike
> >
>