On Tuesday, 15 February 2011 09:04:41 MJ Hughes wrote:
Hi,
I'm an LDAP newbie who has inherited the maintenance of an LDAP system, and am learning on the fly. Until now I've been able to puzzle out all the issues I've faced, but finally my google fu has failed me, so I'm seeking more human assistance.
My problem is with reserved characters, such as , (comma). The system wasn't coping with RDNs that contained these characters, but this was easy enough to fix by simply escaping these characters with a backslash.
Is it *really* necessary to have the title of the book as the RDN? Surely it would make sense to use a normalized unique identifier (e.g. ISBN number?) as the RDN, and just have the cn a normal attribute? And, the author also as an attribute? Then you wouldn't need to build a separate "index" of books by author ...
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$aliasDN: cn=Tomorrow, When The War Began,cn=books,dc=library,dc=com
$operationDN: cn\3DTomorrow, When The War Began,cn\3Dbooks,dc\3Dlibrary,dc\3Dcom,cn=titles,cn=John Marsden,cn=authors,dc=library,dc=com
Regards, Buchan