On Sat, Apr 29, 2006 at 06:37:47PM +0100 or thereabouts, Kostas Georgiou wrote:
> 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?
Of course you are correct again.
After testing on a couple of other nodes not in production or where the
information is non critical it now deployed on our CE
lcgce01.gridpp.rl.ac.uk.
Kostas, this clearly makes a difference in a good direction and should
be submitted up the tree for certification and deployment. I'm happy
to do that giving you credit of course if you want me to.
Steve
>
> Kostas
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