[Fedora-directory-users] Schema Format

[Mike Jackson]

Kevin Peterson wrote:
> When creating a custom schema file, whitespace appears to be
> important. For example:
> 
> attributetypes: (1.3.6.1.4.1.2114.108.1.8.999.8
> NAME ('inherent-3-D-shape-reverse')
> SUP tsCaseIgnoreIA5String
> SINGLE-VALUE)
> 
> attributetypes: (1.3.6.1.4.1.2114.108.1.8.999.9
> NAME ('branch-continuity')
> SUP tsCaseIgnoreIA5String
> SINGLE-VALUE)
> 
> will not work, while

Of course it does not work ;-) See RFC 2849 for formatting rules. FDS 
uses an LDIF object for the schema files:

dn: cn=schema
objectClasses: ...
objectClasses: ...
attributeTypes: ...
attributeTypes: ...



I use this type of nice format; I even wrote a perl program to reformat 
long attribute values to the below format, for readability:

#
# foo schema
#
#
dn: cn=schema
#
################################
# attributes
################################
#
attributeTypes: (
   1.3.6.1.4.1.1.1.1.1.1.1
   NAME 'xxx'
   DESC 'xxx'
   SYNTAX 1.3.6.1.4.1.1466.115.121.1.26
   SINGLE-VALUE
   )
#
################################
#
attributeTypes: (
   1.3.6.1.4.1.1.1.1.1.1.2
   NAME 'xxy'
   DESC 'xxy'
   SYNTAX 1.3.6.1.4.1.1466.115.121.1.26
   SINGLE-VALUE
   )
#
################################
#
attributeTypes: (
   1.3.6.1.4.1.1.1.1.1.1.3
   NAME 'xxz'
   DESC 'xxz'
   SYNTAX 1.3.6.1.4.1.1466.115.121.1.26
   SINGLE-VALUE
   )
#
################################
# object classes
################################
#
objectClasses: (
   1.3.6.1.4.1.1.1.1.1.2.1
   NAME 'xyzclass'
   SUP top
   MUST ( cn $ xxx )
   MAY ( description $ xxy $ xxz )
   )
#
#
# EOF



Mike

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