Thursday, August 21, 2008
Problems parsing the Oracle Internet Directory schema
Ugh. Don’t you just hate it when things don’t work as expected?
So, after finally mastering the “new” version of Net::LDAP::Schema it was time to turn it on Oracle Internet Directory.
[eldapo@testguy tools]$ ./schemaparse.pl
Cannot parse [( 1.3.6.1.1.1.1.22 NAME 'macAddress' DESC 'MAC
address in maximal, colon separated hex notation,
eg. 00:00:92:90:ee:e2' EQUALITY caseIgnoreIA5
Match SYNTAX '1.3.6.1.4.1.1466.115.121.1.27'{128} )]
{{128}} at /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/Net/LDAP/Schema.pm
line 351, line 225.
…propagated at ./schemaparse.pl line 14, line 225.
Looks to me like a malformed schema element. Why am I surprised?
Which kind of explains now why phpldapadmin has such trouble browsing an Oracle directory (php’s LDAP code owes more to Net::LDAP than many realize).
Wonder what impact this might have on other 3rd party apps (do I really have to ask?).
Big shout out to Oracle developers: Please see RFC 4511 and related Internet standards, as revised, for LDAP Protocol version 3, and conform your software as required.
So here’s where I get out my LDAP software entrenching tool and go to work on the OID schema.
Stay tuned for my next report …