RE: creating links

["Howard Chu" <hyc@highlandsun.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-openldap-software@OpenLDAP.org
> [mailto:owner-openldap-software@OpenLDAP.org]On Behalf Of Dieter Kluenter

> Lukas Meyer <lukas@msys.ch> writes:
> 
> > Hello
> >
> > 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.
> 
> Objectclass alias is what you need, unfortunately alias is
> broken in OpenLDAP, but you could have a look at the 'seealso'
> attribute.

As I already posted, aliases work correctly in OpenLDAP 2.2 back-bdb.

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