Hello Gavin,

Thanks for the reply. If this restriction is not there, any of the users can create a dn with RDN as any attribute, which leads to non-uniformity (for instance, one user may create uid as RDN and other may use userPassword as RDN for inetOrgPerson)

Thanks in advance,

Arunachalam.

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-----Original Message-----
From: Gavin Henry [mailto:ghenry@suretecsystems.com]
Sent: Monday, October 01, 2007 4:02 AM
To: arunachalamp@huawei.com
Cc: openldap-software@openldap.org
Subject: Re: restricting attributes to become RDN , which objects are created

Arunachalam Parthasarathy wrote:

> Hello all,

>

> In objectclass, Is there a way to restrict (only) an attribute to be RDN?

>

> For ex: only uid needs to be RDN , in organizational Unit

>

> 

>

> Thanks in advance,

>

Why?

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