Re: creating links

[David Smith <davidsmith@byu.net>]

Lukas Meyer wrote:

> Let us assume I created two knots in an ldap tree. First is 
> ou=people,o=example and second ou=others,o=example. Now I create the 
> object cn=John Doe,ou=people,o=example. Now I want to create like a 
> link in ou=other,o=example that points  to the person cn=John 
> Doe,ou=people,o=example. Is this possible? And if so, how? Because I 
> need to put the same person under different objects and they should 
> all point to the same person in case someone is going to change an 
> attribute of this person, the attributes of all "links" have to change. 


You could attempt a referral on the same box:

 dn: cn=referral,ou=others,dc=example,dc=com
 objectClass: referral
 objectClass: extensibleObject
 cn: referral
 ref: ldap://localhost/cn=John Doe,ou=people,dc=example,dc=com

I've never done this with a person, though I've done it with orgs and 
ous. Your clients will have to be savvy enough to follow referrals, and 
I understand that referrals are implementation-specific at this point as 
well. And remember, to delete them, you'll need to use "ldapdelete -M".

--Dave