Two Newbie Questions

[Mark Bucciarelli <mark@hubcapconsulting.com>]

(1) slapd does not provide property inheritance, right?

For example, say my directory has two levels: country and people.  The 
entries in the people "folder" do not automatically inherit the "c"
attribute of their parent folder, right?  So if I am using an 
LDAP-aware addressbook that just displays the attributes of each 
person's entry, I have to duplicate the country field in order 
to get it to show up in the addressbook.  Either that, or the 
addressbook client must be smarter and show the parent info as you 
switch from on record to the next.

(2) Is there any special meaning given to "o" entries?

For example if now my directory has two levels, but the second level 
has two "folders"--organizations as well as people.  Even if each 
person is associated with an organization, I cannot do things like 
use the organizations address for each person.  Again, with a basic 
(stupid?) LDAP parser, in order to get an address associated with a 
person I would have to duplicate the information.

Basically, this kind of functionality is need to be implemented on the 
client, not the server.

Mark

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Mark Bucciarelli
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