Extending Schema

[Peter Clark <clarkp@mtmary.edu>]

Hello,

I am using openldap 2.4.11 and I am trying to add an attribute for "Date 
of Birth" for each user. In doing some googling I found 2 old emails 
showing 2 ways to extend a schema for this attribute.

Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
attributetype ( 1.3.6.1.4.1.8506.1.2.11
        NAME ( 'birthDate' 'dob' )
        EQUALITY caseIgnoreMatch
        SUBSTR caseIgnoreSubstringsMatch
        SYNTAX 1.3.6.1.4.1.1466.115.121.1.15{128} )


and Michael Stroder wrote:
#
# Date of birth:
# a numeric string restricted to syntax YYYYMMDD
#
attributetype ( 1.3.6.1.4.1.5427.1.389.4.2
      NAME ( 'dateOfBirth' )
      DESC 'Date of birth (format YYYYMMDD, only numeric chars)'
      EQUALITY numericStringMatch
      SUBSTR numericStringSubstringsMatch
      SINGLE-VALUE
      SYNTAX 1.3.6.1.4.1.1466.115.121.1.36{8} )


While looking at these two and the Schema Specification in the handbook 
I have gotten rather confused. Could I just drop one of these into file 
named local.schema (for example) add that path to the schema section of 
 the slapd.conf and use it or is there more to it?


Thank you,

Peter