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Re: Where to put non-Person logins

To: Gary Algier <gaa@ulticom.com>
Subject: Re: Where to put non-Person logins
From: Michael Helm <helm@fionn.es.net>
Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2000 10:05:03 -0700
Cc: Open Ldap General <OpenLDAP-general@OpenLDAP.org>
In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 23 Jun 2000 11:36:52 EDT." <39538414.A26C7B6B@ulticom.com>

Gary Algier writes:
> will still be able to login?  Also, how about "project" logins
> that we want to have across system?  Where would I put one of these?

another ou?  ou=nonpeople?  or...

> Or do I just have to fake a "Person"?  This would mess up the idea
> of using the LDAP database to maintain lists of people for other
> purposes (like employee lists).

can your other applications do filtering; if so add an attribute
to the people entry that has a value person/non-person.
or
it looks like openldap has a group (groupofnames) object,
but I don't know how it works in practice in openldap.

What do people think are the best practices?

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- Where to put non-Person logins
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