Re: Diff files for Schema.pod and Examples.pod

[Chris R. <Chr...@me...>]

On Mon, 19 Jun 2000 13:52:31 CDT, Clif Harden wrote:
> + After a successful bind you are ready to retrieve the schema 
> + information.  You do this by initializing a schema object.
> + 
> +  $schema = $ldap->schema();
> + 
> +  In this case the default schema commonName (cn) is being 
> +  used to retrieve the schema.

That description is wrong. schema() will retrieve the schema held by 
the server using information present in the server's root DSE. See RFC 
2251 section 3.4

> + or
> + 
> +  $schema = $ldap->schema($cn);
> + 
> +  In this case an alternative schema commonName (cn) is being
> +  used to retrieve the schema.

That's wrong for similar reasons. The argument is actually the DN of a 
subentry or entry that contains the schema.

X.500 servers will for instance, have subschema stored in subentries 
below the points which they are mastering, eg <cn=subschema-subentry,o=Y
oyodyne,c=US>, *not* directly below the root.

> + The default LDAP schema name is cn=schema.  However this 
> + may not always be the case, Microsoft Exchange systems are known
> + to build a schema commonName (cn) that is based on domain and 
> + server name.

There is no default schema name in the standards. However, Net::LDAP 
will guess at a DN of <cn=schema> if it cannot find the 
subschemaSubentry attribute in the root DSE.

Looks good otherwise!

Chris