re[2]: Subclassing inetOrgPerson

[Mike Stockemer <Mike.Stockemer@neotool.com>]

I did not modify the core schema, 
I subclassed inetOrgPerson and created my own local.schema and added it to the slapd.conf file.

> --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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> ITSS/TSS/Computing Systems
> ITSS/TSS/Infrastructure Operations
> Stanford University
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