Re: Subclassing inetOrgPerson

[Quanah Gibson-Mount <quanah@stanford.edu>]

--On Monday, April 19, 2004 1:27 PM -0600 Mike Stockemer 
<Mike.Stockemer@neotool.com> wrote:

> For our special situation I needed to have separate attributes for a
> given contacts multiple email addresses.  So I subclassed inetOrgPerson
> and added two new attributes, mail2 and mail3, identical to the mail
> attribute of inetOrgPerson.  If I do an ldapsearch like so
>
> ldapsearch -x -b 'ou=people,dc=neotool,dc=com'
> 'mail=mike.stockemer@neotool.com'
>
> The search is successfule and returns all attributes, even mail2 and
> mail3 for contacts who have this information.  If I do the same search
> with email2 I get an error :80 unknown error.

I'll comment with this:

You need to get an OID, create your own schema, and then extend with 
attributes that "belong" to you.  You should never change/modify a core, 
RFC derived, schema.

--Quanah

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Quanah Gibson-Mount
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