RE: ManageDsaIT and multiple namingContexts (ITS#851)

[markwhitehouse@home.com]

Thanks.  Yes I will test.  Do you have any information on how the
enhancement works from the LDAP C API?  i.e. how do I specify that I want an
LDAP operation to apply to a particular namingContext...

-----Original Message-----
From: Kurt D. Zeilenga [mailto:Kurt@OpenLDAP.org]
Sent: Monday, October 30, 2000 3:12 PM
To: markwhitehouse@home.com
Subject: Re: ManageDsaIT and multiple namingContexts (ITS#851)


HEAD and OPENLDAP_REL_ENG_2 both contain code which provides
improved ManageDsaIt handling.  Please test.

At 04:33 PM 10/20/00 +0000, you wrote:
>Full_Name: Mark Whitehouse
>Version: 2.0.6
>OS: RH Linux 6.2
>URL: ftp://ftp.openldap.org/incoming/
>Submission from: (NULL) (24.0.41.53)
>
>
>Enhancement request:
>  Extend the ManageDsaIT control to be able to handle multiple
namingContext's.
>
>When adding entries into a server with multiple namingContext's it is
sometimes
>necessary to be able to specify the namingContext for which the add should
be
>applied.  A particular example using referrals is taken from the OpenLDAP
>newsgroup:
>
>At 08:59 AM 10/2/00 -0700, Mark Whitehouse wrote:
>
>>>
>>>Assume I have multiple namingContexts on one server i.e.
>>>
>>>  database ldbm
>>>  suffix "ou=people,dc=foo,dc=com"
>>>  directory /var/ldbm/foo-people
>>>  index objectclass eq
>>>
>>>  database ldbm
>>>  suffix "ou=devices,dc=foo,dc=com"
>>>  directory /var/ldbm/foo-devices
>>>  index objectclass eq
>>>
>>>  database ldbm
>>>  suffix "dc=foo,dc=com"
>>>  directory /var/ldbm/foo
>>>  index objectclass eq
>>>
>>>How do I create the referrals in the third namingContext, which refer the
>>>entries in the first and second.  I need to be able to add the following
>>>referral entries to the third naming context:
>>>
>>>  dn: ou=devices,dc=foo,dc=com
>>>  ou: devices
>>>  ref: ldap://localhost/ou=devices,dc=foo,dc=com
>>>  objectclass: referral
>>>  objectclass: extensibleObject
>>>
>>>  dn: ou=people,dc=foo,dc=com
>>>  ou: devices
>>>  ref: ldap://localhost/ou=people,dc=foo,dc=com
>>>  objectclass: referral
>>>  objectclass: extensibleObject
>>>
>>>However, as far as I can see there is no way to specify a namingContext
to
>>>use when performing an ldapadd operation.
>
>Kurt D. Zeilenga replies:
>
>>The easiest way to do this is to bring up slapd with only the
>>one suffix "dc=foo,dc=com", add the two referral objects,
>>and then restart the server with the full configuration.
>>
>>This really should be handled by our ManageDsaIT code, but
>>isn't (yet).