From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Sep 12 21:30:14 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9BFC737B401 for ; Thu, 12 Sep 2002 21:30:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from server2.highperformance.net (ip30.gte4.rb1.bel.nwlink.com [209.20.215.30]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3ED1743EAA for ; Thu, 12 Sep 2002 21:30:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jcwells1@highperformance.net) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by server2.highperformance.net (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g8D4U0Id090877 for ; Thu, 12 Sep 2002 21:30:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jcwells1@highperformance.net) Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2002 21:30:00 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jason C. Wells" X-X-Sender: jcw@server2.highperformance.net To: FreeBSD-chat Subject: LDAP, Schema, and OIDs Message-ID: <20020912211919.B90870-100000@server2.highperformance.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I am just learning about LDAP. I read about warnings not to create fictitious OIDs and not to modify default schema files. Why are OIDs globalized? Who cares what anyone else uses for OIDs in their databases? I have no care if FreeBSD uses a certain OID for an attribute. I have no care if FreeBSD uses the same OID as I do for an attribute. Just like I don't care if jcwells1@freebsd.org also exists. In fact, I think I might prefer to not use schema that are given by default. (names like "o" are just stupid, i don't want to save a byte, i want to be able to read the data) I would prefer to not have to contact IANA to give me a number. These things are probably this way for a reason. What is the reason? Thanks, Jason C. Wells To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message