Re: links in a LDAP database

[Marc Cuypers <mozilla@mgvd.be>]

Adam Williams wrote:

> > I'm new to LDAP.  I got an address book working, and it works fine.
> > I was wondering if it is possible from one subtree to link to another 
> > subtree in the hierarchical database, so that the same data can be found 
> > under more the one subtree?
>
>
> Maybe you want to look at "referrals",  or maybe just the "seeAlso"
> attribute.
If i am right, seeAlso is just a reference to another entry in the LDAP 
tree.  Referrals are used to split up the ldap-tree on more than one 
server, so that every server handles only the queries for a piece of the 
tree.

What I'd like to do is the following.  Every subtree contains a set of 
entries.  So a person with a search base dc=f1, dc=dm, dc=tld can see 
the entries under dc=f1,dc=dm,dc=tld.  A person with searchbase dc=f2, 
dc=dm, dc=tld can see other entries...
I would like to put common entries under the tree dc=common,dc=dm,dc=tld 
and make that every person how searches his searchbase can see all 
entries under his searchbase and also those under the 'common' tree.

Is this possible?

Marc