On Sat, Apr 29, 2006 at 02:00:30PM +0100, Burke, S (Stephen) wrote:
> Testbed Support for GridPP member institutes
> > [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Steve Traylen said:
> > > Since ldif attributes are case insensitive there is little point to
> > > complicate the data structures to store the original value (easilly
> > > done though). In my opinion if any grid tool depends on the case of
> > > ldap attributes it is horribly broken and should be fixed.
> >
> > You are of course correct , i guess we could try it. I suspect it will
> > just break some monitoring rather than any middleware.
>
> I would suggest that it's a bad idea to try experiments on the
> production system to find out whether things break or not!
Correct me If I am wrong but shouldn't everything else read the data from
the ldap server? The ldap server gets the ldif from lcg-info-generic but
the attributes are stored as OIDs internally so the search will still give
you the same results as the old script right?
Kostas
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