Re: (ITS#3713) Invalid syntax definition in nis.schema

[Kurt@OpenLDAP.org]

At 07:09 PM 5/6/2005, Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote:


>--On Friday, May 06, 2005 7:04 PM -0700 "Kurt D. Zeilenga" <Kurt@OpenLDAP.org> wrote:
>
>>Though RFC 2307 does not provide RFC 2252 conformant schema
>>descriptions, it does provide:
>>
>>        ( nisSchema.1.14 NAME 'nisNetgroupTriple'
>>          DESC 'Netgroup triple'
>>          SYNTAX 'nisNetgroupTripleSyntax' )
>>
>>        ( nisSchema.0.0 NAME 'nisNetgroupTripleSyntax'
>>             DESC 'NIS netgroup triple' )
>>
>>(where nisSchema is 1.3.6.1.1.1) which clearly indicates that
>>the nisNetgroupTriple attribute has a syntax nisNetgroupTripleSyntax,
>>whose OID is 1.3.6.1.1.1.0.0.
>>
>>I see no prose or formal schema description in RFC 2307
>>that implies the syntax of this attribute type is IA5String
>>(1.3.6.1.4.1.1466.115.121.1.26).
>>
>>Kurt
>
>Yet when I look at the RFC, I see:
>
>  The following syntax definitions [RFC2252] are used by this schema.
>  The nisNetgroupTripleSyntax represents NIS netgroup triples:
>
>          ( nisSchema.0.0 NAME 'nisNetgroupTripleSyntax'
>            DESC 'NIS netgroup triple' )
>
>  Values in this syntax are represented by the following:
>
>       nisnetgrouptriple = "(" hostname "," username "," domainname ")"
>       hostname          = "" / "-" / keystring
>       username          = "" / "-" / keystring
>       domainname        = "" / "-" / keystring
>
>  X.500 servers may use the following representation of the above
>  syntax:
>
>       nisNetgroupTripleSyntax ::= SEQUENCE {
>        hostname  [0] IA5String OPTIONAL,
>        username  [1] IA5String OPTIONAL,
>        domainname  [2] IA5String OPTIONAL
>       }
>
>
>That looks like IA5 string to me.

So, I guess to you that:
        struct {
                int a, b, c;
        } foo
looks like
        int foo;

These (the ASN.1 nor the C) don't anything like each other to me.

>I will note that OpenLDAP cannot handle the 1.3.6.1.1.1.0.0 SYNTAX, and reports this as an undefined attribute.

Well, that's something you might separately report.


>--Quanah
>
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