Re: about ldap tree philosophy

[Ace Suares <ace@suares.nl>]

'alo,
> Hello,
>
> I've no problem with LDAP software, server and tools are fine.
>
> Now I'm thinking about a real tree and need some idea, usual, and so on
> about tree.
> What the best way for handling that kind of stuff :
>
> People :
>     with all people information (phone, add...),
>     where each has a unique id (login).
> Groups :
>     A place for drawing groups tree like
>     - commercial
>     - - - marketing
>     - - - sell
>     - support
>     - - - internal
>     - - - external
>     - production
>     - - - software
>     - - - - - - tester
>     - - - - - - coder
>     - - - hardware
>     ...


use objectClass 'groupOfNames'

like this:

dn: department=sales,suffix=yoursuffix
objectclass: groupOfNames
member: the-dn-of-one-member
member: the-dn-of-other-member

read the schema files for exact requirements of groupOfNames !

Hope that helps.

Ace




>
> How can I distribute entity from People in the tree groups ?
> Like a person 'Joe' will be in group 'support/external' and in group
> 'production/software/tester' ?
>
> Do you know some place where I can found information about drawing a
> such tree ?
>
> Thanks
> Cyrille