On Mon, 2007-03-12 at 12:44 -0700, David King wrote:
> >> So after asking our LDAP developer, no, I'm not misunderstanding our
> >> product, it really does want that attribute with DNs. It seems that
> >> most LDAP implementations (he cited Domino and Active Directory)
> >> provide that attribute. It does keep our product from working with
> >> OpenDirectory and the default OpenLDAP schema, though
> >> Thank you both (Adam and Vulpes) for your help and comments
> > Why,  both of these provide "groupOfNames/member" by default.
> Well, to be more specific, it keeps our product from working with  
> them out of the box, because those attributes aren't populated by  
> default

I don't understand this statement: "because those attributes aren't
populated by default".  Why would an application care how the values get
created?  And this schema [if that is what you mean] is there by default
and has been for a long time.

> And in the case of OpenDirectory (a redistributed, slightly modified  
> OpenLDAP), the GUI tools (the largest reason most OpenDirectory users  
> use it) don't populate those attributes at all, and don't provide a  
> way to do so.

I wouldn't worry about OpenDirectory;  let Mac people clean up their own
mess.

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