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cosAttribute

Sun ONE defined attribute type

Synopsis

( 2.16.840.1.113730.3.1.550
 NAME 'cosAttribute'
 DESC 'Sun ONE defined attribute type'
 SYNTAX 1.3.6.1.4.1.1466.115.121.1.15
 X-DS-USE 'internal'
 X-ORIGIN 'Sun ONE Directory Server' )

Description

Provides the name of the attribute for which you want to generate a value. You can specify more than one cosAttribute value. This attribute is used by all types of CoS definition entries.

The cosAttribute attribute allows two qualifiers following the name of the CoS attribute. The override qualifier has one of the following values:

• default (or no qualifier) - Indicates that the server does not override a real attribute value stored in the entry when it has the same type as the virtual attribute.

• override - Indicates that the server always returns the value generated by the CoS, even when there is a value stored with the entry.

• operational - Indicates that the attribute will only be returned if it is explicitly requested in the search. Operational attributes do not need to pass a schema check in order to be returned. It also has the same behavior as the override qualifier.

The merge qualifier is either absent or given with the following value:

• merge-schemes - Allows the virtual CoS attribute to be multivalued, either from multiple templates or multiple CoS definitions.

Syntax

Directory String, multi-valued.

Usage

Attribute specific to this Directory Server instance and version of the schema.

Attributes

See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

ATTRIBUTE TYPE	ATTRIBUTE VALUE
Availability	SUNWdsee7
Stability Level	Evolving