Re: (ITS#5305) Contribware: Two overlays for implementing NESTED dynamic groups

[hyc@symas.com]

josemarcodelarosa@gmail.com wrote:
> Full_Name: Jose Marco de la Rosa
> Version: 2.3.39
> OS: Kubuntu 7.10
> URL: ftp://ftp.openldap.org/incoming/Jose-Marco-de-la-Rosa-nestedAggregateAttr-080103.tgz
> Submission from: (NULL) (80.25.122.131)
> 
> 
> Two overlays that implement dynamic group classes defined with URL attributes
> and allowing nesting.
> 
> - The first one is an extension of th overlay expandURL but allowing nesting
> 
> - The second one changes the way groups are constructed in a more powerful way

>  * IMPORTANT: this overlay conflicts with nestedAggregateAttrDN.
>  * 		if both are active, some searches don't behave as expacted!
>  * 		Specifically, if you turn both overlays on and search for
>  * 		'entries with member=<some member value>' won't work properly
>  * 		for one of the overlays (the firstly activated one)

Seems there's really no need for the nestedAggregateAttrDN overlay, since that 
is just a proper subset of a URL. I.e., anywhere you would use a simple DN is 
just a case of subGroupURL: ldap:///<dn>??base

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