harry.jede@arcor.de wrote:
Michael Ströder wrote:
The goal was to make the ACLs more readable for the admin.
This is my intend.
Now the question is: Where to make them more readable.
The GUI just makes it possible for the admin to add the LFs and display the ACL as multiple lines. And now this has the effect that the attributes values in LDIF are base64-encoded. The admin decides whether to add LFs or not.
Right, but are you sure all admins, can handle base64 encoded strings properly. Tools, especially GUI-Tools should make life easier, not more complex.
Again: Did you read the whole thread in the mailing list archive?
Please add it via LDAP and display it in a LDAP client. It will be a single line which was considered to be less readable.
Yes, and it should be a single line.
It's entirely up to you whether you want to add LFs or not. There's no GUI tool forcing you to do so. Not my web2ldap nor Apache Directory Studio mentioned in this thread.
Ciao, Michael.
Michael Ströder wrote:
harry.jede@arcor.de wrote:
Michael Ströder wrote:
The goal was to make the ACLs more readable for the admin.
This is my intend.
Now the question is: Where to make them more readable.
Howard Chu at "25.03.2012 19:57"
The GUI just makes it possible for the admin to add the LFs and display the ACL as multiple lines. And now this has the effect that the attributes values in LDIF are base64-encoded. The admin decides whether to add LFs or not.
Right, but are you sure all admins, can handle base64 encoded strings properly. Tools, especially GUI-Tools should make life easier, not more complex.
Again: Did you read the whole thread in the mailing list archive?
No, I prefere to read local stored mails, whenever I have anounced to a ML.
Please add it via LDAP and display it in a LDAP client. It will be a single line which was considered to be less readable.
Yes, and it should be a single line.
It's entirely up to you whether you want to add LFs or not. There's no GUI tool forcing you to do so. Not my web2ldap nor Apache Directory Studio mentioned in this thread.
btb at "20.03.2012 13:18" and later you at "22.03.2012 18:24" and later
FYI "25.03.2012 20:41"
Ciao, Michael.
harry.jede@arcor.de wrote:
Michael Ströder wrote:
harry.jede@arcor.de wrote:
Michael Ströder wrote:
The goal was to make the ACLs more readable for the admin.
This is my intend.
Now the question is: Where to make them more readable.
Howard Chu at "25.03.2012 19:57"
That's exactly what I'm doing. But it's current practice in applications to treat LFs as line break when displaying/entering the data.
It's entirely up to you whether you want to add LFs or not. There's no GUI tool forcing you to do so. Not my web2ldap nor Apache Directory Studio mentioned in this thread.
btb at "20.03.2012 13:18" and later you at "22.03.2012 18:24" and later
You're misreading what was written there:
The messages above clearly mean that it's still up to the admin whether he adds LFs to the ACL string or not. Whether the user adds LFs or not is not mandated by any of the mentioned applications at all.
In opposite to that: Your proposal is to change what the admin enters by stripping all LFs. Normalization might make sense but users have to agree on the presentation form. The presentation form you propose might fit your needs but does not necessarily please someone else.
All things done in a UI are compromises and as usual your mileage may vary.
Ciao, Michael.
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