Re: Length of the attributes?

[Norbert Klasen <norbert.klasen@daasi.de>]

--On Dienstag, 19. März 2002 08:08 +0100 Stephan Siano 
<stephan.siano@suse.de> wrote:

> On Monday, 18. March 2002 19:53, Venkataraman, Jeeva wrote:
> > Is there any max length on the values that an attribute can hold on?
> > If so where is it specified?
> > (For instance for the core schema)
>
> It's defined in the SYNTAX statement of the attribute definition (in this
> example from core.schema the length is 1024 bytes.
>
> attributetype ( 2.5.4.13 NAME 'description'
>         DESC 'RFC2256: descriptive information'
>         EQUALITY caseIgnoreMatch
>         SUBSTR caseIgnoreSubstringsMatch
>         SYNTAX 1.3.6.1.4.1.1466.115.121.1.15{1024} )
>
> I don't know whether there is a limitation for attribute lengths, there
> are  some attributes (as name and all derived attributes) that have a
> maximum  length of 32K.
>
> > How to specify the same for the custom schema defined attributes?
>
> the same way as in the core schema...

These limits are actually "suggested minimum upper bounds" and are ignored 
by OpenLDAP. See also recent thread on ietf-ldapbis.

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