Re: Applicability of manage DIT control?

["Kurt D. Zeilenga" <Kurt@OpenLDAP.org>]

At 05:00 AM 10/17/2005, Michael Ströder wrote:
>I'm experimenting with Manage DIT control in web2ldap.

You might consider deferring your experiment until there
is an Internet-Draft detailing the control extension.

>When this server control is enabled slapd 2.3.11 is writing to the log:
>
>slap_global_control: unrecognized control: 1.3.6.1.4.1.4203.666.5.12
>
>Does this mean that this control is not usable for all LDAP operations?

That likely means your not running a development version of
slapd(8).  I believe one would see "critical extension is unavailable"
if one attaches a critical control to an request its not designed
to be used with.

>Only with modify requests?

only with update requests (e.g., add, delete, modify, and rename (moddn)).

>I've implemented setting it globally similar
>to Manage DSA IT control. But this seems to be too naive...

Yes.

Kurt