Re: [ldapext] why posixAccount MUST contain 'cn'?

Michael Ströder <michael@stroeder.com> Sun, 14 December 2014 17:35 UTC

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Kurt Zeilenga wrote:
>> I'd be in favour of relaxing this to MAY cn in RFC2307bis.
> 
> See BCP 118 [RFC 4521], Section 5 concerning IETF rules for changing previously published schema definitions.

Yes, but RFC2307bis also changes posixGroup schema.

Ciao, Michael.