Overview#

LDAP Schema for NDS is an Internet Draft draft-sermersheim-nds-ldap-schema defines the LDAPv3 LDAP Schema descriptions and non-standard syntaxes used by Novell Directory Services (NDS)

The ObjectClass Description, AttributeTypes Description, LDAPSyntaxes Description and syntaxes defined in this document are unique to NDS and are meant to compliment those defined in RFC 2252, RFC 2256 and other RFCs and Internet Drafts.

NDSObjectClassDescription#

NDSObjectClassDescription adds LDAP Schema Element Extensions to the ObjectClass Description, which is defined in section 4.4 of RFC 2252. The additional terms, which begin with the characters "X-NDS ", exist to describe NDS specific object class flags and states that have not yet been adopted by LDAP object classes.

• X-NDS_NAMING qdstrings
• X-NDS_CONTAINMENT qdstrings
• X-NDS_NAME qdstrings; legacy NDS name
• X-NDS_NOT_CONTAINER qdstrings; default false container ('0')
• X-NDS_NONREMOVABLE qdstrings; default false removable ('0')

NDSAttributeTypeDescription#

The NDSAttributeTypeDescription defined here, adds LDAP Schema Element Extensions to the AttributeTypeDescription, which is defined in section 4.2 of RFC 2252. The added terms, which begin with the characters "X-NDS"

• X-NDS_NAME qdstrings; legacy NDS name
• X-NDS_LOWER_BOUND qdstrings; LOWERBOUND. default; ('0')(upper is specified in; SYNTAX)
• X-NDS_UPPER_BOUND qdstrings; reserved (UPPERBOUND)
• X-NDS_NOT_SCHED_SYNC_IMMEDIATE; qdstrings; default sched sync; immediate ('0')
• X-NDS_NON_REMOVABLE qdstrings; default false ('0')
• X-NDS_PUBLIC_READ qdstrings]; default false ('0')
• X-NDS_SERVER_READ qdstrings; default false ('0')
• X-NDS_HIDDEN qdstrings; default false ('0')
• X-NDS_NEVER_SYNC qdstrings; default false ('0')
• X-NDS_SCHED_SYNC_NEVER qdstrings; default schedule sync ('0')
• X-NDS_NAME_VALUE_ACCESS qdstrings; default false ('0')
• X-NDS_BOTH_MANAGED qdstrings]; default false ('0')
• X-NDS_ENCRYPTED_SYNC qdstrings; default false ('0')
• X-NDS_FILTERED_REQUIRED qdstrings; default false ('0')
• X-NDS_FILTERED_OPERATIONAL qdstrings; default false ('0')

More Information#

There might be more information for this subject on one of the following:

• Draft-sermersheim-nds-ldap-schema
• EDirectory Schema Reference
• LDAP Schema
• X-NDS_SYNTAX