Re: (ITS#7493) slapo-allowed: allowed* attrs are replicated

[hyc@symas.com]

masarati@aero.polimi.it wrote:
>> Michael Ströder wrote:
>>> hyc@symas.com wrote:
>>>> masarati@aero.polimi.it wrote:
>>>>> On 01/15/2013 07:40 PM, michael@stroeder.com wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Please consider the attached patch which sets allowed
>>>>>> "USAGE dSAOperation". This seems to be the most appropriate USAGE
>>>>>> compara=
>>>>>> ble
>>>>>> to what's set for entryTTL in slapo-dds.
>>>>>
>>>>> No objection with this patch, since those properties were
>>>>> "arbitrarily"
>>>>> assigned to attributes defined by others to provide software
>>>>> interoperability.  Unless anyone has objections, I'd commit it.
>>>>
>>>> Go ahead. Please add a comment about the origin of the schema
>>>> definitions and
>>>> these interoperability concerns.
>>>
>>> These attribute type descriptions were roughly taken from MS AD.
>>
>> I meant, please add a comment *in the patch* so it will remain in the
>> source code.
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> There's already a detailed comment to this end in the related README,
> which links the attribute definitions on <http://msdn.microsoft.com/>.

As already noted, those links don't provide actual schema definitions, nor do 
they define the USAGE. We're making a judgement call here with no 
documentation to support it. We should document why we're defining it this way 
so we don't have to repeat this conversation again down the road.
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> p.
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>>> Today I've checked the subschema of a W2K8R2 AD server:
>>> I did not find a single attribute type description with USAGE although
>>> there
>>> were attribute types formally defined in RFCs. One example is 'entryTTL'
>>> defined with "USAGE dSAOperation" in RFC 2589 which in fact was
>>> co-authored by
>>> Microsoft employees.
>>>
>>> The official Microsoft documentation is here [MS-ADA1]:
>>>
>>> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc219752.aspx
>>>
>>> Ciao, Michael.
>>>
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