Re: different seperator in dnstyle authz-regex / access?

[Pierangelo Masarati <ando@sys-net.it>]

Hans Moser wrote:
> Hi!
>
> man slap.access says:
>
> It can have the forms
>
>  dn[.<dnstyle>]=<dnpattern>
>
>
> man slapd.conf "authz-policy" says:
>
> it can take five forms:
> [...]
>  dn[.<dnstyle>]:<pattern>
>
>
> Am I wrong, or is this by any cause different? Why ":" here and "=" there?

Traditionally, "access" used "dn=<pattern>", while "authz*" used 
"dn:<pattern>"; when styles came in, each context preserved the related 
separator.  I don't see a big inconsistency here, since the contexts of 
application of each configuration syntax are well separated.

p.



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