Re: [ldapext] when is manageDsaIT needed for the root DSE?

[Steven Legg <steven.legg@eb2bcom.com>]

Jim,

Jim Sermersheim wrote:
> I agree conceptually. But when describing the steps for determining
> suitability of the pointed-to object in technical terms, you'd kind of
> have to say "aliasedObjectName can point to a glue DSE, but not the root
> DSE."

Couldn't you just say that the value of aliasedObjectName cannot be the
empty RDN sequence ?

You might be better off not saying that the aliasedObjectName *points* to
anything, but rather that it provides a new name with which to recommence
name resolution. The name is a reference to an entry or alias that may or
may not exist (anywhere), and may or may not be locally represented by
either an entry DSE, an alias DSE or a glue DSE. One finds out by doing
name resolution.

Regards,
Steven

> > > > "Kurt D. Zeilenga" <Kurt@OpenLDAP.org> 9/23/04 6:21:46 PM >>>
>
> At 05:11 PM 9/23/2004, Jim Sermersheim wrote:
>
> > Thinking more about the alias thing; an alias should be allowed to
>
> point
>
> > to a glue DSE. 
>
>
> I'd argue that such an alias is not pointing at the glue,
> but the object/alias entry that the glue entry is providing
> glue for.
>
>
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