Re: How can I create new Objectclasses?

["Kurt D. Zeilenga" <Kurt@OpenLDAP.org>]

At 09:38 PM 5/26/99 -0500, Mark Wilcox wrote:
>Hi,
>OIDs are technically required by LDAP,
>but in my experience most LDAP
>servers let you get by without them (I'm not sure how openLDAP does it,
>since I don't have much experience extending its schema).

OpenLDAP 1.x is LDAPv2 which doesn't rely on OIDs.

>If you intend to share your schema outside of your own network, you'll need
>to get an OID because that's what gurantees each object class and attribute
>is unique.

For OpenLDAP 2.x (LDAPv3), you'll need OIDs to any item you invent.

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Kurt