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Re: (ITS#3713) Invalid syntax definition in nis.schema
At 07:09 PM 5/6/2005, Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote:
>--On Friday, May 06, 2005 7:04 PM -0700 "Kurt D. Zeilenga" <Kurt@OpenLDAP.org> wrote:
>
>>Though RFC 2307 does not provide RFC 2252 conformant schema
>>descriptions, it does provide:
>>
>> ( nisSchema.1.14 NAME 'nisNetgroupTriple'
>> DESC 'Netgroup triple'
>> SYNTAX 'nisNetgroupTripleSyntax' )
>>
>> ( nisSchema.0.0 NAME 'nisNetgroupTripleSyntax'
>> DESC 'NIS netgroup triple' )
>>
>>(where nisSchema is 1.3.6.1.1.1) which clearly indicates that
>>the nisNetgroupTriple attribute has a syntax nisNetgroupTripleSyntax,
>>whose OID is 1.3.6.1.1.1.0.0.
>>
>>I see no prose or formal schema description in RFC 2307
>>that implies the syntax of this attribute type is IA5String
>>(1.3.6.1.4.1.1466.115.121.1.26).
>>
>>Kurt
>
>Yet when I look at the RFC, I see:
>
> The following syntax definitions [RFC2252] are used by this schema.
> The nisNetgroupTripleSyntax represents NIS netgroup triples:
>
> ( nisSchema.0.0 NAME 'nisNetgroupTripleSyntax'
> DESC 'NIS netgroup triple' )
>
> Values in this syntax are represented by the following:
>
> nisnetgrouptriple = "(" hostname "," username "," domainname ")"
> hostname = "" / "-" / keystring
> username = "" / "-" / keystring
> domainname = "" / "-" / keystring
>
> X.500 servers may use the following representation of the above
> syntax:
>
> nisNetgroupTripleSyntax ::= SEQUENCE {
> hostname [0] IA5String OPTIONAL,
> username [1] IA5String OPTIONAL,
> domainname [2] IA5String OPTIONAL
> }
>
>
>That looks like IA5 string to me.
So, I guess to you that:
struct {
int a, b, c;
} foo
looks like
int foo;
These (the ASN.1 nor the C) don't anything like each other to me.
>I will note that OpenLDAP cannot handle the 1.3.6.1.1.1.0.0 SYNTAX, and reports this as an undefined attribute.
Well, that's something you might separately report.
>--Quanah
>
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>Quanah Gibson-Mount
>Principal Software Developer
>ITSS/Shared Services
>Stanford University
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