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Re: graphs in LDAP

On Fri, 21 Feb 2003, Antonio Beamud wrote:

> I'm new in LDAP world.. I want to define a structure like this:
>
>                                        my.com
>                                         /       \
>                                    people    services
>                                     /     \        /     \
>                                    /       \     /         \
>                                  x            y            z
>                                   \          /
>                                     \      /
>                                       w
>
> I'ts posible define this graph and not only a tree... If it can't be
> done...the solution to this problem is replicate the object 'y' and de
> object  'w'...

An entry may have at most one parent; it's a tree, not a graph, so it
cannot be done that way.  Depending on what you want to do, you might
consider using aliases, or a "seeAlso" attribute that refers to the other
entry.

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