Re: Multiple Inheritance in Schema?

[Donn Cave <donn@u.washington.edu>]

On Tuesday, June 1, 2004, at 09:16 AM, Hallvard B Furuseth wrote:
> jim kraai writes:
> > Anyone know whether multiple inheritance is supported when defining 
> > schema
> > items?
>
> No.  If you e.g. define exactly the same object class twice, slapd 
> stops
> with a 'duplicate objectclass' error message.  (You need to start it
> with the '-d 0 (or a higher number)' option to see the error message.)
>
> LDAP allows two different OIDs to have the same textual name if they 
> are
> in a different name space, e.g. you can have a 'foo' object class with
> one OID, and a 'foo' attribute type with another OID.

On the other hand, SUP can have multiple values, allowing an objectclass
to inherit attributes independently from two or more objectclasses, and
OpenLDAP supports this.

	Donn Cave, donn@u.washington.edu