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Rats, I was hoping _not_ to be the one trying this. >>> Mark Smith <mcs@pearlcrescent.com> 11/8/04 9:47:59 AM >>> We discussed some ideas along these lines when I was at Netscape. Our conclusion was that this took LDIF too close to a scripting language, and that standardization of such a thing probably would be difficult. But no one can stop you from trying ;-) -Mark Jim Sermersheim wrote: > It's difficult (well, impossible I guess) to write an LDIF file which > can be used to update schema because one never knows the name of the > subschema subentry in effect for the object(s) for which the schema is > being updated. (I'm assuming a DSA which can modify schema. i.e. > X.501(93) Clause 14.5). > > If LDIF were extended to allow (at least) DN replacement, this would > allow an LDIF to be used to update schema (without the LDIF being > modified for each DSA it is to be applied to). Something like an > assignment directive in form of a search URL could be used to assign a > value to a variable, then that variable could be used in subsequent LDIF > records. > > Is there any effort underway to do something like this? |
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