Re: Empty Strings attributes in OpenLDAP

2012-10-10 Thread Emilio García
Hi there, I found this thread: http://www.openldap.org/lists/openldap-software/200010/msg00794.html But it is dated 12 years ago, so I imagine it will be a little bit outdated. Also it claims to be a bug in version 2.0.x while I am using 2.4 in RHEL6. Then some discussions about how to

Re: Empty Strings attributes in OpenLDAP

2012-10-10 Thread devzero2000
On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 10:38 AM, Emilio García emilio.gar...@cloudreach.co.uk wrote: Hi there, I found this thread: http://www.openldap.org/lists/openldap-software/200010/msg00794.html But it is dated 12 years ago, so I imagine it will be a little bit outdated. Also it claims to be a bug

Re: Empty Strings attributes in OpenLDAP

2012-10-10 Thread Emilio García
So that means that only IA5 strings are allowed to be zero-length (but they are not Unicode) and Directory String attributes however cannot be zero-length by design. I am confused about the part it says: But OpenLDAP treats all strings as Directory Strings. Does it means that at the end of the

Empty Strings attributes in OpenLDAP

2012-10-09 Thread Emilio García
Dear all, Is there a way to define a string to be empty in OpenLDAP Schema? I read that RFC 2252 doesnt allow empty strings. But is there any workaround for this like a different SYNTAX or attribute type? We have a preexisting software which tries to write empty strings and it is crashing because

Re: Empty Strings attributes in OpenLDAP

2012-10-09 Thread Howard Chu
Emilio García wrote: Dear all, Is there a way to define a string to be empty in OpenLDAP Schema? I read that RFC 2252 doesnt allow empty strings. But is there any workaround for this like a different SYNTAX or attribute type? We have a preexisting software which tries to write empty strings and