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RE: ModifyDN -- subtrees or not?

To: Chris Harding <c.harding@opengroup.org>
Subject: RE: ModifyDN -- subtrees or not?
From: "Kurt D. Zeilenga" <Kurt@OpenLDAP.org>
Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2001 10:57:40 -0700
Cc: dif-members@opengroup.org, ietf-ldapbis@OpenLDAP.org
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At 03:28 AM 2001-09-17, Chris Harding wrote:
>My suggestion is that you clarify whether the RFC requires servers to implement Move Subtree (and other operations that are the subjects of protocol requests).

While I think the language used could be improved, I believe
the technical specification is reasonable clear that a server
can refuse to successfully complete any operation for any
reason and is only obligated to return an appropriate response.

An implementation is free to return a non-successful result in
response to any and all subtree move (rename) requests.  This may
be due to mapping onto a directory system which cannot support
this request [RFC 2251, 3.3].  I note that many LDAP servers
do not support subtree move (rename).

Kurt

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- RE: ModifyDN -- subtrees or not?
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