Re: "return unknown attrs" control

[Pierangelo Masarati <ando@sys-net.it>]

Hallvard B Furuseth wrote:

> Pierangelo Masarati writes:
>  
>
> > Juan Carlos Sanchez Recio wrote:
> >    
> >
> > > [root@kurling openldap]# ldapsearch -x -b '' -s base '(objectclass=*)'
> > > namingContext
> > >      
> > Try "namingContexts" (note the trailing "s").
> >    
>
> It might be useful to have a control which asks an operation to return a
> control with a list of any unknown attributes referenced by the request.
> Or more generally unknown values for anything with OID syntax.  Could be
> turned on by default in some or all of the LDAP tools.
>  
The idea looks interesting; I don't see how most of the users would 
benefit from it, except those that use the latest version of the tools.  
I do not quite agree on having such control enabled by default on 
openldap client (maybe non-critical?) because it would require them to 
use LDAPv3 by default and could cause other incompatibility issues with 
third-party DSAs; even if we provide a switch to disable it, I'd rather 
stick with the rest of the controls, that must be explicitly requested.

On a somewhat related topic, I've just added logs when "undefined" or 
the newly deined "proxied" (ITS#3959) attributes are mapped into the 
schema.  By now, the log is at ANY level, but maybe a more appropriate 
(set of) level(s) should be used.

p.


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