Re: Oracle OpenLDAP PPolicy ppolicy and the hierarchy

[Christian Kratzer <ck-lists@cksoft.de>]

Hi Howard,

On Wed, 25 Dec 2013, Howard Chu wrote:
> > See https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-masarati-ldap-deref
>
> Was going to reply but Michael beat me to it. Reiterating all the points 
> Michael made. There is no good reason to use memberUid or uniqueMember in 
> LDAP, both of these schema elements are deeply flawed.

thanks to both of you of bringing this up once more.

I was always intending to ask what the original use case for groupOfUniqueNames
actually was as I totally fail to see the point in the uniqueMember attributes.

I see lots of people using it just because "oh yeas of course we want to
have unique members".

Greetings
Christian

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