From openldap-technical  Thu Feb 01 16:27:26 2024
From: Howard Chu <hyc () symas ! com>
Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2024 16:27:26 +0000
To: openldap-technical
Subject: Re: UNKNOWN attributeDescription "..." inserted.
Message-Id: <00554885-f4fe-3700-defa-6f7a8e821542 () symas ! com>
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Bastian Tweddell wrote:
> On 31Jan24 16:16+0000, Howard Chu wrote:
>> File a bug against the totp module. If it is using this attribute, it
>> should be registering it in the schema during module initialization.
> 
> Do I understand correctly, that sbin/slapcat should also load initalize 
> all modules from slapd config?

Yes, all the tools fully process the config.

>>> - Is the removal of attribute definitions from the schema not 
>>>   supported/suggested at all?
>>
>> Never recommended, no. If you're retiring a definition, just add OBSOLETE to it.
> 
> Great! I'll revert the changes about that and will mark those attributes 
> obsolete. The OBSOLETE tag is not specified closer in manual. The RFC 
> says it is an indicator. I think, the tag is _just_ an meta data in the 
> schema and slapd will mostly ignore it, right?

Right.

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