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roelvanmeer
Asked: 2016-04-07 23:01:08 +0800 CST

openldap alternative to modifying core schema syntax

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I have an application that stores contacts in OpenLDAP. It uses the c attribute to store a string describing a country name. The syntax of c only allows a two-letter country code, but the application uses full country names. Therefore the attribute it should be using is co, or friendlyCountryName. Unfortunately I cannot change this application. (It's Mozilla).

I am looking for a way to make this work. I can, of course, change the schema definition of c to that of co, but that seems bad practice. I could also disable schema checking, but that is even worse.

I have also tried using the rwm overlay to map c onto co, which works (as in: client saves c, database contains co), but then the syntax of c is still enforced, so that doesn't work.

So, the best option I have now is to change the syntax of c in the core schema. But I am curious: are there better ways to work around this?

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1 Answers

  1. If your LDAP server is configured with the mozillaAbPersonAlpha schema, you can tack the AUX objectClass: mozillaAbPersonAlpha onto your entries (provided they have cn) and then use the mozillaHomeCountryName attribute.

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