Hi When I am trying to add/edit the value to the attribute "protocol information" which is required in our schema I am getting the error

Invalid syntax :protocol information: no validator for syntax 1.3.6.1.4.1.1466.115.121.1.42

from the earlier mailing list I have found The problem seems to be lack of validations in the schema_init.c source code for attribure 'Protocol Information'

this attribute protocolInformation is defined in core.schema

{"( 1.3.6.1.4.1.1466.115.121.1.42 DESC 'Protocol Information' )", 0, NULL, NULL, NULL},

including values like dnPretty ,UTF8StringValidate..etc in the code instead of NULL values will resolve my problem, but then that require the custom build and I have to do for all the attributes where validation is defined as NULL.

I personally feel that for those attributes where validation are NULL in schema_init.c and other schema files, the openLDAP should not force the validation and give this error message, as all these attributes in which validation are not defined becomes unusable .

In Tivoli/Sun and Microsoft Active directory LDAP validation is not enforced where validation is defined as NULL hence I am not getting these kind of error in Tivoli/Sun and Microsoft Active directory for editing of this attribute .

So any idea how to resolve this ? there is any way to modify any of the config file in openldap to disable this validation for protocol information ? do I have to raise bug request for the same and is this going to be fixed in next openLDAP release. ?

Any help and suggestions in this direction is highly appreciated.

thanks and regards Prashant