Re: adding a custom attribute

[Quanah Gibson-Mount <quanah@zimbra.com>]

--On Tuesday, December 02, 2014 10:55 PM +0200 Igor Shmukler 
<igor.shmukler@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I want to have an ability add "custom attribute[s]" to my LDAP records.
> For example, such an attribute could be sipTelephone, mobile and/or
> something else.
>
> I did a little digging. Please advise whether I am on the right track.
>
> My understanding, at present, is that I would have to modify
> core.schema [located on my Ubuntu under /etc/ldap/schema ] and perhaps
> some other schema files from the same directory.
>
> I found various syntax OIDs. For telephones, for example -
> 1.3.6.1.4.1.1466.115.121.1.50 should be the right one. There is
> another OID for strings - 1.3.6.1.4.1.1466.115.121.1.15 for UTF-8
> coded strings.
>
> Is editing core.schema the correct way to go? I am eagerly looking for
> advice.

Never, ever, edit core.schema.

You can apply for your own OID, create your own attributes, and then create 
objectClasses that use them.  That is the correct way to do things.

--Quanah

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Quanah Gibson-Mount
Server Architect
Zimbra, Inc.
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