Mastering OpenLDAP: Configuring, Securing and Integrating Directory Services

Creating a Schema

Up to this point we have taken an in-depth look at schema definitions and then implemented a few overlays that made use of custom schemas. By now you should be comfortable working with and reading schemas. Here we are going to create our own schema.

Our goal in this section is to create a small schema for adding blog information to our directory. We want to be able to store a record in the directory to represent a blog, and also link existing entries to these blogs, indicating, for example, that a particular user maintains a particular blog.

To do this we are going to add two object classes—one structural and one auxiliary—and a handful of new attributes. The structural object class, blog, will describe an individual blog. It will ...