RE: Names of Object Identifiers

[John Aurich <JAURICH@novell.com>]

On Fri, 3 Jul 1998,  James H. Young wrote:
> What I was more surprised to find was that one of the ldap servers I was
> testing against (Novell's early ldap to NDS gateway) would return a
> different value for the "cn" and "commonName" attributes.  Of the client
> tools that requested both the "cn" and "commonName" attribute, some would
> display the value of the "cn" instead of the value of the "commonName" 
> attribute if they contained different values.  Other client tools did just
> the opposite.

> I eventually learned that Novell's LDAP to NDS gateway had a configuration
> file that was used to define that mapping of ldap text tokens to NDS
> attribute names.  I never did find out whether the mapping we were using
> was configured by default to return different NDS attribute values for
> ldap "cn" and "commonName" attributes, or whether one of my colleagues had
> made a conscious decision to map the ldap "cn" and "commonName" attributes
> to two different NDS attributes. 

Both LDAP Services for NDS v1.01, and the soon to be released NetWare 5 LDAP v3
for NDS, map the "cn" and "commonName" LDAP attributes to the same NDS attribute
by default.  The NWAdmin utility can be used by a Directory Administrator to add, delete
and modify LDAP attribute and class mappings.

Regards,

John Aurich
Novell Directory Services
Novell, Inc.
email: jaurich@novell.com