RE: LDIF.pm and schemaUpdateNow

[Robbie A. <ra...@ci...>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris Ridd [mailto:chr...@me...]
> Sent: Friday, April 06, 2001 8:58 AM
> To: Robbie Allen
> Cc: per...@li...
> Subject: Re: LDIF.pm and schemaUpdateNow
> 
> 
> Robbie Allen <ra...@ci...> wrote:
> > Active Directory's schema cache may be updated by setting the
> > operational attribute 'schemaUpdateNow' to 1.  This is 
> typically done in
> > LDIF files that modify the schema in which a reference 
> needs to be made
> > to a class or attribute that was created in the same LDIF 
> file.  If the
> > schema cache isn't updated, the server may reject the change.
> > 
> > More information is available here:
> > http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/psdk/adsi/glschemex_378l.htm
> > 
> > It looks like this in an LDIF file:
> > 
> > dn:
> > changetype: modify
> > add: schemaUpdateNow
> > schemaUpdateNow: 1
> > -
> 
> That's OK, because I think that your change record is 
> affecting the root DSE, which has a DN of "".

That's correct.


> > Turns out that Net::LDAP::LDIF doesn't like this very much. 
>  It expects something after the dn.  The following change would fix 
> this issue, but
> > I was curious if it might break something else.  The entry object
> > created will not have a distinguishedname attribute, but 
> everything else seems to work fine.
> 
> A minor quibble: the "dn" line does not indicate an attribute called
> distinguishedName, but actually the DN of the entry being 
> modified. (The DN of an entry is not held in an attribute of the
entry.)

Actually it is in Active Directory.  It is called distinguishedName.


> > LDIF.pm
> > 73c73
> > <   return unless @ldif > 1 && $ldif[0] =~ s/^dn:(:?) //;
> > ---
> >>   return unless @ldif > 1 && $ldif[0] =~ s/^dn:(:?)( ?)//;
> > 
> > Robbie Allen
> > 
> 
> A slightly better change would be:
> 
>     return unless @ldif > 1 && $ldif[0] =~ s/^dn:(:?) *//;
> 
> because the LDIF ABNF says the dn line is this:
> 
> dn-spec = "dn:" (FILL distinguishedName /
>                  ":" FILL base64-distinguishedName)
> 
> FILL    = *SPACE
> 

That's fine.  What does it take to get this change incorporated into
LDIF.pm?

Robbie Allen