Howard Chu wrote:

Emmanuel Lecharny wrote:

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Howard Chu wrote:

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There's no bug here, and the schema parser isn't causing your problem. As documented in slapd.conf(5), directives must form a single logical line. Lines that are split must be continued by a leading space character.

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Assuming this is not a bug, this is still really painfull... It would be much better to consider that the AttributeType, being parenthesed, can be scanned without taking into account the leading white space, until the closing ')'.

The config file parser breaks the input into lines before scanning to see what keywords are actually on those lines. The syntax of the config file has been documented to behave this way for over 10 years. Nobody else has cared to change it until now...

FYI, before having RTFM, I thought that the only possible "include" I can use was for schema file. It made sense to me then that OpenLDAP was using a specific parser for schema, but I was wrong.

It seems that I have missed the part of the doc where this 'first space requirement' is mentionned... We were lucky enough in ADS to be able to use a contextfull parser for those schema file (we support the same format), so we were able to relax this constraint. Supposing that ADS behavior is to be expected by OpenLDAP is obviously a mistake ...

I wish I have some time to provide some patch for OpenLDAP to relax such a constraint, but, eh, if I say so, that would be a damn lie !

Of course, all of that is going to be phased out as we move to pure LDIF in the future. (Which again, requires a leading space character for line continuations. And again, is a well documented feature of the format.)

Yeah, the problem will remain, but at least, there is a RFC for idiot like me who don't do their homeworks... The *big* advantage to have LDIF formatted schemas is that you won't have anymore to care about ordering the elements inside attributeTypes and objectClasses...

Btw, we do have some LDIF format for Shcema, and I was wondering if it won't be a good idea to try to define a common format ? I would really appreciate if a LDIF schema file could be directly injected in both ADS and OpenLDAP !

Thanks.