Re: alias entries across database bounds, allowed if DBs are "subordinate"?

[Judd Maltin <judd@newgoliath.com>]

On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 11:47 AM, Quanah Gibson-Mount <quanah@zimbra.com> wrote:
> --On Thursday, February 23, 2012 5:04 PM -0800 Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Judd Maltin wrote:
>>>
>>> Hey folks,
>>>
>>> On the same slapd server, I have two databases with different suffixes.
>>>
>>> I'd like to create an alias entry in one database and suffix to return
>>> an entry from the other database and suffix.
>>>
>>> Would this be possible if the second database were subordinate to the
>>> other? ÂOr, because it does not share namingContext by being in the
>>> same suffix, would it fail?
>>>
>>> Otherwise I'm going to setup another slapd and use back-ldap/meta to
>>> proxy what I need.
>>
>>
>> No, aliases cannot cross DB boundaries, regardless of subordinate.
>
>
> Any reason why you don't make it all a single DB?
>
> --Quanah
>

Thanks for the responses, guys.

I inherited the existing and will be replacing with one DB.

I'm now slapcatting the DBs and loading into a single DB as POC.

-judd

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