RE: how do YOU use LDAP?

["Howard Chu" <hyc@highlandsun.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-openldap-software@OpenLDAP.org
> [mailto:owner-openldap-software@OpenLDAP.org]On Behalf Of Tony Earnshaw

> ons, 2002-11-27 kl. 16:25 skrev Adam Williams:

> > Or don't.  The LDAP model supports subordinate information
> via referrals,
> > and OpenLDAP supports them.  One can spread a single Dit
> over multiple
> > DSAs.
>
> When a BDB 4 Openldap 2.1.8 DSA gets confronted with an
> LDAPv3-compatible Novell eDirectory 8.6 NLDAP aliased
> attribute that it
> doesn't understand, what does it do then? Shout "I'm Open
> Source and I'm powerful?"

Since referrals are processed by clients, the OpenLDAP DSA will never be
confronted by an NDS attribute it doesn't understand.

  -- Howard Chu
  Chief Architect, Symas Corp.       Director, Highland Sun
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