Re: Newbie philosophical questions

["Richard Huxton" <dev@archonet.com>]

From: "Stephane Bortzmeyer" <bortzmeyer@netaktiv.com>

> On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 11:03:52AM +0100,
>  dev@archonet.com <dev@archonet.com> wrote
>  a message of 27 lines which said:
>
> > For my dn I was using cn=John Smith, o=Mycompany, c=UK which is simple
but
> > prevents you having two "John Smith"s. So - I've changed to using a
numeric
> > id number.
>
> The standard schema for persons use the "uid" attribute, which is like
> an Unix login name, an abreviated unique name (it is not Unix' numeric
> uid).

Ah - but these are external contacts, not internal users. I'll run with a
numeric for the moment then.

> http://ldap.hklc.com/objectclass.html?objectclass=inetOrgPerson
>
> > Secondly, am I right in thinking there's no way to lock an entry to
provide
> > atomic updates?
>
> Right. LDAP != DBMS

Yep - spotted that fact mentioned in several places. I take it if people
with a big system run a separate data-store and "publish" to the LDAP
database.

- Richard Huxton