On Tuesday, 15 February 2011 09:04:41 MJ Hughes wrote: > Hi, > > > I'm an LDAP newbie who has inherited the maintenance of an LDAP system, and > am learning on the fly. Until now I've been able to puzzle out all the > issues I've faced, but finally my google fu has failed me, so I'm seeking > more human assistance. > > > My problem is with reserved characters, such as , (comma). The system > wasn't coping with RDNs that contained these characters, but this was easy > enough to fix by simply escaping these characters with a backslash.
Is it *really* necessary to have the title of the book as the RDN? Surely it would make sense to use a normalized unique identifier (e.g. ISBN number?) as the RDN, and just have the cn a normal attribute? And, the author also as an attribute? Then you wouldn't need to build a separate "index" of books by author ... [...] > $aliasDN: cn=Tomorrow\, When The War Began,cn=books,dc=library,dc=com > > > $operationDN: cn\3DTomorrow\, When The War > Began\,cn\3Dbooks\,dc\3Dlibrary\,dc\3Dcom,cn=titles,cn=John > Marsden,cn=authors,dc=library,dc=com Regards, Buchan
