Re: LDIF and structural objectclasses

[Daniel Tiefnig <dantie@gmx.at>]

Kurt D. Zeilenga wrote:
> > 1) Why are userpassword attributes always encoded in base64 in

> Because rot13 is not an available LDIF form.  :-)

A major design flaw, for sure. :o)

> > But WTF is '0*1'?
>
> Zero through one.

Duh. Should have thought that, but I got confused by the [...] notation 
used elsewhere in that document. I don't think it's a good idea to mix 
different notations in an standards definition. (0*1(foo) and [foo] _do_ 
mean the same, don't they?)

> > Why's that an error actually? (And since when, have never seen this so far.)
>
> In short, because the information model says each object has
> one and only one structure.  In long, see X.501(93).

A decision of general principle so to say. Doesn't sound bad in theory, 
and doesn't work well in practise.

> (This has always been the case in LDAPv3.  2.0 failed to check
> for this.  In 2.1, we fixed that bug.)

Things get more complicated from year to year... :o)


Thanks to all of you guys,
daniel