Re: Additional syntaxes

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

At 02:24 AM 2001-12-06, Luzian Scherrer wrote:
>In the OpenLDAP Administrator's Guide I read: "slapd can 
>also be extended to support additional syntaxes [...], but this 
>requires some programming and hence is not discussed here."
>
>For example, if I wanted to have an attribute "sex" with two
>possible values "male" or "female", how would I do that with
>OpenLDAP? Is the addition of new syntaxes documented anywhere?

Likely in the archives of this list.  It will be now:

cd servers/slapd
vi schema_init.c
        code by example
        ZZ
make

Sorry, but I've the time to detail it further.

>Seems somewhat like a FAQ though I cannot find it in the FAQ ;)

Feel free to add an answer (once you know it).

Kurt