Re:OpenLDAP Schemas? (Score 1)

You are right about the lack of good material on schema design. I surveyed the web a few months ago and found very little (and some of what I did find was trying to treat LDAP as a relational database!).

As a result, I ended up presenting a paper on LDAP Schema Design at the UKUUG Winter Conference. The paper covers issues of tree design and also entry design, and explains why the examples used in X.500 and early LDAP documents are not indicators of good practice. The full paper is available from my own website in both HTML and PDF formats.

In answer to your question about existing classes and attributes, I suggest getting either GQ or jXplorer - both include schema browsers which can help you to understand the relationships between the various elements. GQ may be in your favourite Linux distro. jXplorer is Java-based and I have run it happily on both Linux and Windows. In both cases you need a running LDAPv3 server as the schema that they display is the "live" one.

Andrew Findlay, Skills 1st Ltd