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Re: schema design and schema restrictions



On Wednesday 26 November 2008 08:54:18 Mansour Al Akeel wrote:
> Buchan Milne wrote:
> > On Wednesday 26 November 2008 06:07:28 Mansour Al Akeel wrote:
> >> Hello all,
> >> I an new to LDAP, and I have a need to migrate the existing system to
> >> ldap as this will ease a bit the management for the new system
> >> implementation. I need to authenticate users for a web site, and for the
> >> internal system ( linux, windows stations .... etc). Now the available
> >> account objectclass is structural
> >
> > Sou you shouldn't use it, but intead the hostObject auxiliary objectclass
> > provided in the ldapns.schema file shipped with pam_ldap.
> >
> > [...]
> >
> >> This is in fact not only specific to this senario. I couldn't
> >> find any docs about how to prevent objectClass domain to be added under
> >> group !
> >
> > There are two interpretations of this statement, please be more clear
> > about this matter.
>
> Ok, let's say I have an entery MyBusiness with objectClass Organization.
> I don't want any entry of type account to be added under this
> Organization. The only thing I want to add is OrganizationalUnit under
> MyBusiness. How do I specify this ? As I can see, any object type can be
> cascaded in any object (directory entry). I need to tell LDAP through
> the schema (or any other way) not to allow Person or account to be a
> direct child of Organization. I hope this example makes things clear.

This is not schema design, but DIT structure rules, which OpenLDAP doesn't 
support (http://www.openldap.org/faq/data/cache/649.html). You could implement 
some of these aspects via ACLs though.

Regards,
Buchan