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Re: NO-USER-MODIFICATION for attribute type description memberOf



On 7/11/19 6:43 PM, Howard Chu wrote:
> Michael Ströder wrote:
>> Currently attribute type description memberOf does not have
>> NO-USER-MODIFICATION.
>>
>> memberof.c contains a commented line:
>> 		/* "NO-USER-MODIFICATION " */		/* add? */
>>
>> But it's my understanding that if the memberof overlay is responsible
>> maintaining this attribute NO-USER-MODIFICATION should be added.
>>
>> Any objections against adding it?
>
> ISTR a few things would break when that was uncommented. Feel free to
> test it out though.

Hmm, the git log is pretty terse. This commit after intial import only
added comments:

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commit e33abd467c526a740a10f77e84ccc78d7b18e6d7
Author: Pierangelo Masarati <ando@openldap.org>
Date:   Sat Aug 25 16:02:43 2007 +0000

    needs work: memberOf should not be replicated
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There's no reasoning why 'memberOf' should not be replicated.
IMHO it should be replicated to avoid the effects described in ITS#8613 [1].

Can anyone shed some light on this?

Ciao, Michael.

[1] https://www.openldap.org/its/index.cgi/?findid=8613