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Re: [ldapext] Nested group (was: groupOfEntries object class proposal)

On Wed, Sep 19, 2007 at 09:43:45AM -0400, Liben, Michael (GTI) wrote:

> The nestedGroup attribute may not add much value. The members of the
> group would still need to be examined individually to determine if they
> in turn contain the member attribute.

Only the nestedGroup members would have to be expanded. 'member'
attributes would only point to direct members, so they would not need
to be read.

In a group with 5000 direct members and 25 nested groups the
client could avoid 5000 operations when looking to see if a particular
entry is a member. It would only need to expand the 25 nested groups,
and would not even have to read the direct member entries.

Andrew
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