[Fedora-directory-users] Re: Extending the Schema

[Richard Megginson]

David Boreham wrote:

> Richard Megginson wrote:
>
>> Scott Boggs wrote:
>>
>>> Scott Boggs <sboggs <at> trustedcs.com> writes:
>>>
>>> Would a possible solution to enforce case sensitivity at user login 
>>> be to use the Case Exact String Syntax Plug-in that is listed in 
>>> administrators guide? 
>>
>> The syntax plug-ins do not enforce their particular syntax in the 
>> sense of rejecting attribute values that do not match their specified 
>> syntax.  They merely provide comparison, collation, and index key 
>> generation.
>
>
> But any client that is authenticating on behalf of users should see the
> 'correct' behavior, no ? For example if a search for 'uid=Foo' were
> done, it would not match an entry with uid=foo.

Right.  But that's controlled by the syntax setting for the attribute in 
the schema.  Basically, when you tell the schema to use syntax OID 
x.y.z, that x.y.z corresponds to a particular syntax plugin.

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