Re: (ITS#4463) New overlay - constraint

[hyc@symas.com]

neil.dunbar@pobox.com wrote:
> Full_Name: Neil Dunbar
> Version: 2.3.20
> OS: Linux (Gentoo)
> URL: ftp://ftp.openldap.org/incoming/constraint.tar.gz
> Submission from: (NULL) (209.200.60.124)
>
>
> Enhancement code.
>
> Provides an overlay which can constrain attributes to conform to a particular
> regular expression syntax.
>
> This is a modification of an older submission (whose ITS I can't find). I've
> zapped the code involving iconv, since it was buggy and non-portable. All that
> remains is the regular expression constraint.
>
> I've also added a (minimal) manual page.
>
>   
The man page looks a bit strange, perhaps a copy/paste error:


      DESCRIPTION

      The constraint overlay is used to enforce a regular expression
      constraint on all values of specified attributes. The constraints are

      For Add and Modify operations the identity comes from the
      modifiersName associated with the operation. This is usually the
      same as the requestor's identity, but may be set by other overlays
      to reflect other values.


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