Re: dynamic groups

[Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com>]

Aleksander Adamowski wrote:
> MichaÅ SzulczyÅski wrote:
> > > While it's good that you got this code working, I still believe you've 
> > > completely missed the point of dynamic groups.
> > >     
> > I agree with you that this is not a truly dynamic group. This overlay is more 
> > of a "automatically updated static group," so maybe the name of this overlay is not
> > representing what it does exactly. But without modifying much of 
> > the OpenLDAP codebase I don't see a better way to do it (but maybe I'm wrong, 
> > so feel free to correct me)
> Actually, I originally thought of this as a "materialized" dynamic
> groups, per analogy to materialized views in RDBMS world.
>
> So a more proper name for the overlay would be "mdynlist", not "rdynlist".

I think we can drop the dynlist reference since dynlist is much more general 
and this is specific to groups. I think something like "autogroup" would be 
more appropriate. If you're satisfied with the functionality of the code as-is 
we can probably add it to the contrib/slapd-modules tree. Read the 
contributing guidelines, then submit your package to the ITS.
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