Re: Groups under ldap

[Hugh Caley <hcaley@loomer.com>]

My thought was to put an owner's identifier in the DN for the record, so that you could switch by setting a different search base.  I don't know if that would work, but that was going to be something I would try soon ; )

Hugh

John Lederer wrote:

> We are working on a contacts directory using LDAP. (http://rolodap.sourceforge.net )
>
> Here is the problem.  We want to allow a user to be able to switch from seeing "all company contacts" to seeing just "my contacts" or "George's contacts".
>
> There are two ways of apporaching this.  One would be to create an attribute called "owner" , allow it to be multi-valued, and then use that to create groups, i.e. if the woener attribute contains "george" then we could search on that and return all of george's contacts.
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> The other way would be to create a group--"George's contacts" -- similar to a mail group and to put into the group all of George's contacts.
>
> I am not sure that I see all the ramifications of the two approaches.  Does anyone have any comments?
>
> John Lederer

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Hugh Caley, Lumeria, Inc.
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