Re: variable value inheriting

[Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com>]

Artem Rudenko wrote:

> Hello I'm a student of RostovStateUniversity(Russia) and I'd like to hear your 
> opinion on the topic below.
> We need to know if there was such backend or maybe patch for OpenLDAP that 
> implements such thing like INHERIT. It will let share 
> information(variables values) between objects. I exactly mean backend or part 
> of code which allow directory's object value(s) to be pasted in another 
> directory(some kind of link) without retyping. If it was not implemented we 
> may try to do this.
> We are also interested in implementing of this feature for standart OpenLDAP 
> release as backend(if it will work as backend) 
> or as code modification.
>
>
>  
It sounds like you're talking about collective attributes, and there is 
already a sample overlay that implements this to some degree. Look at 
slapd/overlays/collect.c in CVS, it will probably serve as a good 
starting point for whatever you want to accomplish.

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