Re: Loading LDAP schema files into cn=config

On 3/7/2011 2:18 πμ, Howard Chu wrote: > We've been discussing this problem for quite a while. My current > thinking is that somehow we can use attribute options to help. > Visually it might be better to associate the option with the original > attribute, e.g. > olcAccess: > olcAccess;x-comment: > This would require defining a new (and strange) type of attribute > option though, since the value with the option has no relation > (syntactically) to the original attribute type. > > Thank you for this discussion. I think it might not matter which of the two is the implementation, as long as the "description" (either "olcWhatever;x-comment:" or "description;x-olcWhatever:") is available and multi-valued for each and every attribute and if it can easily stay together with the entry concerned, and easily displayed in relation to it as well (yes, visual behavior for comments is important!). For example, for olcAccess, modifying an example from: http://www.openldap.org/doc/admin24/access-control.html, if we create the attribute values: olcAccess: to attrs=member,entry by dnattr=member selfwrite description;x-olcAccess: (0) Access rules for attrs: member,entry description;x-olcAccess: (0) Entered by Nick on 7/12/2012 olcAccess: to dn.children="dc=example,dc=com" by * search description;x-olcAccess: (1) Allow search on children of example.com description;x-olcAccess: (1) Entered by Nick on 7/12/2012 olcAccess: to dn.children="dc=com" by * read description;x-olcAccess: (2) Allow only read on children of com description;x-olcAccess: (2) Entered by Nick on 7/12/2012

we should be able to easily display: olcAccess: {0}to attrs=member,entry by dnattr=member selfwrite description;x-olcAccess: (0) Access rules for attrs: member,entry description;x-olcAccess: (0) Entered by Nick on 7/12/2012 olcAccess: {1}to dn.children="dc=example,dc=com" by * search description;x-olcAccess: (1) Allow search on children of example.com description;x-olcAccess: (1) Entered by Nick on 7/12/2012 olcAccess: {2}to dn.children="dc=com" by * read description;x-olcAccess: (2) Allow only read on children of com description;x-olcAccess: (2) Entered by Nick on 7/12/2012 I assume, all the above should be easier and more intuitive to achieve using the "olcAccess;x-comment:" approach (even if it's more difficult - as you say - to implement).