Re: Symlinks in OpenLDAP

[Norbert Klasen <norbert+lists.openldap-software@burgundy.dyndns.org>]

--On Donnerstag, 5. Dezember 2002 11:54 -0700 David Smith 
<DavidSmith@byu.net> wrote:

> Is it possible to create a symlink in OpenLDAP. I would like to create a
> container of objects that are just symlinks to other objects.

A "symlink" in LDAP is an "alias". Create an entry with "alias" as 
structural object class and put the DN of the "real" entry into the 
"aliasedObjectName" attribute.
Note that alias handling is not fully implementd in all parts of OpenLDAP 
(e.g. bdb).

Norbert