Re: attribute inheritance

[Maximilian Ott <max@ccrl.nj.nec.com>]

Kurt,

Thanks for the quick reply.

I just want to clarify: Is this a limitation of OpenLDAP 1.x, or is this
something which shouldn't be done in LDAP. I assume in the spirit of the
internet/open software the answer will be "anything goes, especially if
you do it yourself".

I have another application where I want to create nodes dynamically
whenver someone asks for them (kind of a cache). I assume that could be
done easily by hacking up the database backend.

Are there some guidlines on how to add extensions to the server?

Thanks,

-max

On Wed, 16 Feb 2000, Kurt D. Zeilenga wrote:

> 
> At 11:27 AM 2/16/00 -0500, Maximilian Ott wrote:
> >
> >
> >Assume I have the following entries:
> >
> >dn: app=foo
> >attr1: red
> >attr2: big
> >
> >dn: os=linux, app=foo
> >attr1: blue
> >
> >I now want to make a query including os=linux and app=foo and want to get
> >back attr1=blue, attr2=big.
> >
> >Can I do that? I hope it is obvious why I want to do it.
> 
> OpenLDAP 1.x does not support attribute subtyping.  You need
> to request each subtype explicitly:
> 
> ldapsearch -b "app=foo" '(|(attr1=*)(attr2=*))' attr1 attr2
> 
> would return attr1 and attr2 attributes of any entry in the app=foo
> subtree which contained either attr1 or attr2.
>