Re: setting up a DIT for multiple domains? HELP!?

["Mark Wilcox" <mark@mjwilcox.com>]

Here's a couple of ways:
one to accomplish what you want is through the use of referrals.

e.g.
1. foo.com
      create an entry ou=english,dc=foo,dc=com that points to base of
foo.co.uk's directory
2. foo.co.uk
     create an entry ou=us,dc=foo,dc=co,dc=uk that points to base of foo.com
directory
3. Parent.com
    has 2 referrals like 1 & 2 but point to foo.com and foo.co.uk
respectively

Alternative

create a base of something like o=parent.com
create two bases off of parent.com with
o=foo.com,o=parent.com
o=foo.co.uk,o=parent.com
and populate as you see fit, that way anything that starts with o=parent.com
grabs foo.com and foo.co.uk as well.

Not not usally done that way, but a posibility. You're DNs would also become
quite long, but they don't have to be human readable anyway :).

Mark






The actual interfaces (e.g. mail, web) matter little but you will probably
have to write them yourself since I have yet to find a pre-written tool that
really handles referrals for searches very well.

-----Original Message-----
From: Trever Furnish <trever@monster.com>
To: openldap-general@OpenLDAP.org <openldap-general@OpenLDAP.org>
Date: Wednesday, September 01, 1999 5:24 PM
Subject: setting up a DIT for multiple domains? HELP!?


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>I could *really* use some sage advice!
>
>I need to set up a directory that serves multiple domains in
>significantly different ways and leaves room for adding at least one
>more later - advice on how best to do so would be greatly appreciated!
>
>Eventually I'd like to have two user search interfaces to the
>directory(s?): web-based and email-client-based.  The web-based one
>doesn't worry me so much, but the email-client search does.
>
>For example, I'll pick three make-believe domains and reserve a fourth
>for later.
>
>The domains are:
> 1. foo.com
> 2. foo.co.uk
> 3. boom.com
> and later 4. Parent.com
>
>Foo.com and Foo.co.uk are sister companies in different countries with
>different email systems, phone switches, etc.  It would be nice if the
>default search for people in either of these two companies also included
>the other.  So "cn=jon" would pull from both foo and foo-uk.
>
>Boom.com is a seperate company (email happens to be on foo server, phone
>switch different).  Need to have them in the directory, but not in the
>default search.
>
>Parent.com is the parent of all those companies, but maintains a
>completely seperate Exchange server with its own directory of its
>users.  It would also be nice if parent.com people could search all four
>companies at once, or search them individually.
>
>>From the web interface, it must be possible to change search any or all,
>at the user's whim.
>
>So how would one best set up the directory servers for the first three
>(foo, foo-uk, and boom)?  (Astute readers with too much time can
>probably see through my silly company names, so keep in mind that my
>confusion is my own, not my employer's. ;^) )
>
>
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>Trever Furnish, trever@monster.com, postmaster@monster.com
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