Re: entries below subentries/aliases

Steven Legg <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.ldapbis
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hallvard,

Hallvard B Furuseth wrote:
> This message of 7 May 2004 has not been addressed:
> http://www.openldap.org/lists/ietf-ldapbis/200405/msg00008.html
> 
> 
> Is it legal to add a non-subentry below a subentry?

It's not legal in X.500 to add an entry or subentry below a subentry.

> If not, what result code should be returned?

We return namingViolation - it seems the best fit.

> Also, what result code should be returned for an attempt
> to add an entry below an alias?

namingViolation - the description of the error in X.511 explicitly mentions
this case.

Regards,
Steven
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