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Re: Customizing organizationalUnit

Derek Chen-Becker wrote:
> On 08/03/2011 01:10 PM, Michael StrÃder wrote:
>> 3. Somewhat hackish: Define a DIT content rule for organizationalUnit and add
>> the needed attributes to MAY in this.
>>
>> 1. and 2. requires you to transform your data.
>>
>> 3. does not require data changes but some rather naive schema-aware LDAP
>> clients might refuse to handle the additional attributes.
> 
> The software that consumes this right now (postfix) seems blissfully
> ignorant of any schema since it handles our modified organizationalUnits
> just fine. If/when we get an opportunity to rewrite the software I'll
> definitely take a look at option #1, since that seems the cleanest, but
> for now where might I find more details on #3?

In your case:

dITContentRule ( 2.5.6.5
  NAME 'organizationalUnit-dcr'
  MAY ( mail ) )

See RFC 4512 section 4.1.6. for details.

Ciao, Michael.