Re: slapo-memberof nested group behavior

[Gavin Henry <ghenry@OpenLDAP.org>]

Faraz Khan wrote:
> Dear all,
> i know that nested groups have been discussed in detail before- just 
> wanted to know what the priority of implementing nested groups through 
> slapo-memberof or otherwise is. The functionality already discussed is:
>
> If A memberof B    and    C memberof A   then C memberof B
>
> Functionality required would be that the memberof attribute handles 
> recursion correctly. The administrative importance of this functionality 
> cannot be emphasized more upon.
>
> I am willing to help out with the slapo-memberof module if the 
> functionality can be built into the current overlay only. Pointers on 
> how to accomplish this would be appreciated.

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