Category Archives: LDAP Best Practices

Taking a step back: The Sad Story of My VMware Downgrade

A short time ago I wrote about upgrading my personal systems at home and work to VMware Server 2.0, and gave what I thought were some compelling reasons why it was A Good Thing ™.
Unfortunately, the one issue I haven’t been able to work around has been my inability to get any guest, whether upgraded [...]

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 [...]