Re: Naming context in slapd-meta URI

[Dave Horsfall <daveh@ci.com.au>]

On Fri, 10 Mar 2006, Pierangelo Masarati wrote:

> > This may sound like a dumb question, but what is the purpose of the 
> > "naming context" on the "uri" line in a meta backend?  If it's 
> > constrained to ending with the suffix, why have it at all?
> 
> It's intended to restrict the use of that specific target to a portion 
> of the naming context served by the database.  If you have only one 
> target then it's useless, but then you're better off using back-ldap.

Ah, thanks.  Unfortunately I do have multiple targets (the subject of 
another message to the list), so I cannot use back-ldap.

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