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Re: AD-style AUX classes



On Mon, 2008-01-21 at 18:26 +1100, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-01-21 at 08:11 +0100, Pierangelo Masarati wrote:
> > Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> > 
> > > I strongly suspect I won't ever get to the stage of being able to use
> > > OpenLDAP's schema files, unless they are strictly broken up into files
> > > that do and don't conflict with Microsoft (which is probably not an
> > > OpenLDAP goal :-)
> > 
> > Files provided by OpenLDAP are a mere dump of the contents of the
> > related RFCs, but users are not required to use them.  User-defined
> > schema is user-defined schema and, although most of interoperability
> > would probably break if you don't load core.schema (an significant
> > portions of it are actually hardcoded), you don't need to use those
> > files.  So breaking things up, or extracting portions and copying them
> > where they are needed by your application should not be an issue, given
> > that they are pretty stable, since they're based on standard track
> > documents.  Of course, as soon as you change standard track definitions,
> > you work against interoperability, but that's another issue.
> 
> But the moment I copy those definitions, I end up exactly where I am
> now, with files that are *not* updated when it is decided, for some
> perfectly reasonable reason or other, to place that attribute in the C
> code of slapd.

To move this part of the discussion in a forward direction...

In Fedora DS, I was able to get a patch accepted to trim the 00core
schema down to the really, really core stuff.  I'm unsure if the same
would even be possible with OpenLDAP, given the way schema is loaded (by
listing each file)?   

Thanks,

Andrew Bartlett

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Andrew Bartlett
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Authentication Developer, Samba Team           http://samba.org
Samba Developer, Red Hat Inc.

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