Re: ITS#8286 pending questions

[Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com>]

Michael Ströder wrote:
> Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote:
> > I've done a first pass through the source tree adding missing matching
> > rules to the olc* attributes to address ITS#8286
> > (<https://github.com/quanah/openldap-scratch/tree/its8286>).  However,
> > many of the attributes are string types, and can either be case
> > exact/ignore match.  The following is a list of those attributes, and my
> > best guess at which they should be.
>
> It really depends on the default use-case and whether an attribute could
> be used in a RDN or not.
>
> Since POSIX file systems are case-sensitive I'd say that all attributes
> containing file-system path names must be defined with caseExactMatch.
>
>    Once I have a definitive answer on
> > these, I'll commit them:
> >
> > ---------------- servers/slapd/bconfig.c -----------------------
> > olcInclude -- case ignore match?
>
> Is already defined with caseExactMatch via "SUP labeledURI".
> IMO deriving from labeledURI does not make sense though.
>
> Ciao, Michael.

olcInclude takes URIs. Typically file:// URIs. It could also take ldap:// URIs.

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