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RE: delete permission

To: Bruce Greenblatt <bgreenblatt@directory-applications.com>
Subject: RE: delete permission
From: "Kurt D. Zeilenga" <Kurt@OpenLDAP.org>
Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2000 22:34:02 -0700
Cc: "Ramsay, Ron" <Ron.Ramsay@ca.com>, Ellen Stokes <stokes@austin.ibm.com>, d.w.chadwick@salford.ac.uk, ietf-ldapext@netscape.com
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At 10:08 PM 7/19/00 -0700, Bruce Greenblatt wrote:
>While this is certainly the case, in the previous discussion on this issue
>from last year, it was not agreed that the semantics of a subtree delete
>were identical to the semantics of a series of "atomic" delete operations
>due to access control issues.  There was some feeling that you would not
>necessarily want the subtree delete operation to be partially successful.
>I.e., if you couldn't delete all of the entries in the subtree, then no
>entries in the subtree were to be deleted.

Another issue for subtree deletion is handling of subordinate
references with in the subtree.  In particular, are delete
continuations returned to the client?  if so, how?  Are there
ManageDSAit control issues?  Etc.

Kurt

References:
- RE: delete permission
  - From: "Ramsay, Ron" <Ron.Ramsay@ca.com>
- RE: delete permission
  - From: Bruce Greenblatt <bgreenblatt@directory-applications.com>

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