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Re: DN like "ou=test+ou=test2,cn=whatever,..."
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| Alex Karasulu 2005-10-06, 5:45 pm |
| Jérôme Baumgarten wrote:
> RFC 2253 Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (v3): UTF-8 String
> Representation of Distinguished Names
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> Section "3. Parsing a String back to a Distinguished Name" says the
> following :
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>distinguishedName = [name] ; may be empty string
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>name = name-component *("," name-component)
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>name-component = attributeTypeAndValue *("+" attributeTypeAndValue)
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>attributeTypeAndValue = attributeType "=" attributeValue
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> but i do not know if you can use several times the same attributeType,
> might be in the RFC but (sorry) I do not have the time to read through
> the full RFC.
If there is no clear message that says types cannot be equal in ...
name = name-component *("," name-component)
then I think its allow. There are some revision documents from the LDAPBIS working
group that might mention something. Here is the homepage for the charter:
http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/ldapbis-charter.html
Alex
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