Sun Identity Manager 8.1 Resources Reference

Attribute Syntax Support

This section provides information about supported and unsupported account syntaxes.

Supported Syntaxes

The following table lists the Active Directory syntax supported by Identity Manager:

AD Syntax  

Identity Manager Syntax  

Syntax ID  

OM ID  

ADS Type  

Boolean 

Boolean 

2.5.5.8 

ADSTYPE_BOOLEAN

Enumeration 

String 

2.5.5.9 

10 

ADSTYPE_INTEGER

Integer 

Int 

2.5.5.9 

ADSTYPE_INTEGER

DN String 

String 

2.5.5.1 

127 

ADSTYPE_DN_STRING

Presentation Address 

String 

2.5.5.13 

127 

ADSTYPE_CASE_IGNORE_STRING

IA5 String 

String 

2.5.5.5 

22 

ADSTYPE_PRINTABLE_STRING

Printable String 

String 

2.5.5.5 

19 

ADSTYPE_PRINTABLE_STRING

Numeric String 

String 

2.5.5.6 

18 

ADSTYPE_NUMERIC_STRING

OID String 

String 

2.5.5.2 

ADSTYPE_CASE_IGNORE_STRING

Case Ignore String (teletex) 

String 

2.5.5.4 

20 

ADSTYPE_CASE_IGNORE_STRING

Unicode String 

String 

2.5.5.12 

64 

ADSTYPE_OCTET_STRING

Interval 

String 

2.5.5.16 

65 

ADSTYPE_LARGE_INTEGER

LargeInteger 

String 

2.5.5.16 

65 

ADSTYPE_LARGE_INTEGER

Unsupported Syntaxes

The following table lists the Active Directory syntaxes that are not supported by Identity Manager:

Syntax

Syntax ID

OM ID

ADS Type

DN with Unicode string  

2.5.5.14 

127 

ADSTYPE_DN_WITH_STRING

DN with binary 

2.5.5.7 

127 

ADSTYPE_DN_WITH_BINARY

OR-Name 

2.5.5.7 

127 

ADSTYPE_DN_WITH_BINARY

Replica Link 

2.5.5.10 

127 

ADSTYPE_OCTET_STRING

NT Security Descriptor 

2.5.5.15 

66 

ADSTYPE_NT_SECURITY_DESCRIPTOR

Octet String 

2.5.5.10 

ADSTYPE_OCTET_STRING

SID String 

2.5.5.17 

ADSTYPE_OCTET_STRING

UTC Time String 

2.5.5.11 

23 

ADSTYPE_UTC_TIME

Object(Access-Point) 

2.5.5.14 

127 

n/a 

Identity Manager supports the jpegPhoto and thumbnailPhoto account attributes, which use the Replica Link syntax. Other Replica Link attributes might be supported, but they have not been tested.