Re: why posixAccount MUST contain 'cn'?
Jim Willeke <[email protected]> Mon, 15 Dec 2014 07:03:06 -0500
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And then there is also... http://technicalprose.blogspot.co.uk/2013/08/introducing-dbis.html ᐧ -- -jim Jim Willeke On Sun, Dec 14, 2014 at 7:17 PM, Hallvard Breien Furuseth < [email protected]> wrote: > > On 14/12/14 17:10, Michael Ströder wrote: > >> (...) >> Also what's the distinction of 'cn' and 'gecos' in 'posixAccount'. It >> seems >> most NSS LDAP clients use attribute 'cn' as gecos field today. >> > > cn is UTF-8. The gecos attribute is IA5 String - i.e. ASCII. > One of many ways rfc2307 does not fit the real world too well. > memberUid is another IA5 too, both it and uid are case-insensitive > even though rfc2307 is for case-sensitive Unix, etc. > > > _______________________________________________ > Ldapext mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ldapext > _______________________________________________ Ldapext mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ldapext