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Re: "*" attribute type name and the binary option
Mark,
Thanks for the clarification. It wasn't clear to me whether "the
attribute
description string "*" ", meant:
- the attribute description string consisting only of "*", or
- the attribute description string containing a "*" as its attribute type
Bruce
At 05:27 PM 11/27/98 -0600, you wrote:
>
>> As far as I can tell from the reading of RFC 2251, I can use the "*"
>> character as the attribute type in the attribute description of the
>
>No. According to RFC 2251 page 29, second paragraph:
>
>> There are two special values which
>> may be used: an empty list with no attributes, and the attribute
>> description string "*".
> ^^^^^^^^^^^
>
>"*" is an attribute description, not an attribute type. The examples in
>your message are not legal.
>
>Mark Wahl, Directory Product Architect
>Innosoft International, Inc.
>
>
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