Re: Missing Syntax

[Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com>]

Michael Ströder wrote:
> Nik Svoboda wrote:
> >    I have noticed that in the openldap system I am using, the schema has
> > a missing syntax. This syntax is "1.3.6.1.4.1.1466.115.121.1.58" ;
> > "Substring Assertion".

According to CVS, Substring Assertion was added to OpenLDAP on 2007-May-17. 
Your version of OpenLDAP must be extremely old.

> > This is referenced in matching types using
> > partial matching of strings (exactsubstringsmatch,
> > numericStringSubstringsMatch, ...). I am fairly new to these subjects
> > and do not understand fully how they operate.
>
> What do you mean which "matching types"? "Matching rules" or
> "attribute types"?
>
> > Is there a way to correct this?
>
> Depends on what you really want to achieve. Can you tell us?
> Looking into RFC 2252 and RFC 3698 I cannot imagine what you want.
>
> > Are the syntaxes and matching types
> > specified in a way that can be modified dynamically?
>
> Syntaxes and their matching rules have to be coded in C. There's
> no dynamic configuration for these.

Not yet, I suppose. Eventually, in Forth.
http://www.openldap.org/software/roadmap.html

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