Re: Building OpenLDAP with MSVC 6

[Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com>]

Brandon McCombs wrote:
> Howard Chu wrote:
> > Rajarshi Chaudhuri wrote:
> > > Thanks Howard. I have also sent a mail to Symas sales for licensing
> > > price info for CDS packages for Windows.
> > >
> > > One follow up question - is there a way to turn off schema checking in
> > > OpenLDAP 2.3? Is it possible in CDS distributed by Symas?
> >
> > No. Schema is an integral part of the LDAPv3 specification; schema 
> > checking cannot be disabled. Why do you want to turn it off?
>
> I realize the schema being published in the DIT is an integral part of 
> the v3 spec (schema checking is something that could have been in v2 
> though as far as I would guess) however I know that other LDAP 
> implementations do allow it to be turned off so he had a good question.

The question begs the other question though - what one is actually trying to 
accomplish. There isn't enough context to tell. That's why I asked for 
clarification.

"Other LDAP implementations that don't do schema checking" is an oxymoron - 
those are not LDAP implementations. They implement some bizarre 
vendor-specific non-standard undocumented protocol that sort of looks like 
LDAP until you actually try to use and interoperate with it. That may be many 
things, but LDAP it's not.

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