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Re: Antw: adding a custom attribute



Ulrich Windl wrote:
>>>> Michael Ströder <michael@stroeder.com> schrieb am 09.12.2014 um 16:31 in
> Nachricht <548715BF.7050800@stroeder.com>:
>> Ulrich Windl wrote:
>>> I thought a schema having a OID is the same everywhere; would a modified 
>> schema need a new OID then?
>>
>> Best practice is to assign a new OID if anything changes for a schema 
>> element.
>>
>> 99.9999% of LDAP client applications don't care about OIDs though.
> 
> I thought the LDAP _protocol_ uses OIDs everywhere, and names are just for
> human users...?

Nope. One could regard this as design deficiency (in comparison to X.500).

http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4512#section-2.5

Ciao, Michael.

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