Re: I want to create a good ldap tree

[David Young <dyoung@NetToNetTech.com>]

I am not sure exactly what you are asking here, but you could...

- Define three organizationalUnits: Employees, Customers, Suppliers.
- Create a unique uid for each employee, customer and supplier. uids need
not be tied to names, and could be numeric for suppliers and customers.
- Create an organizationalPerson entry for each employee, customer and
supplier. organizationalPerson requires sn and cn, so if you don't know a
particular person's sn, you're going to have to come up with something to
put in there (maybe "unknown").
- All other attributes are optional, so add them if you've got them.

DNs would be something like:

uid=tqueste,ou=Employees,dc=free,dc=fr
uid=c008874,ou=Customers,dc=free,dc=fr
uid=s026364,ou=Suppliers,dc=free,dc=fr

Just my suggestion, and there are probably people with more LDAP experience
who might suggest a better way.

> From: Tom <tqueste@free.fr>
> Organization: www.56k.fr.st
> Reply-To: tqueste <tqueste@free.fr>
> Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2001 11:02:36 +0100
> To: openldap-software@OpenLDAP.org
> Subject: I want to create a good ldap tree
> 
> Hello all,
> 
> I'm a french student and I must create a LDAP tree for an enterprise.
> So i will ask you some advises.
> 
> I've got a problem with the identification of the persons.
> 
> There are 3 categories :
> - employee
> - customer
> - supplier
> 
> Each employee has got an uid (his login like "tqueste") and a password
> (userPassword).
> But the customers and the suppliers haven't got any of these
> attributes. All theirs attributes are:
> - surname/givenname (or common name ?)
> - postaladdress
> - phonenumber
> - phonenumber2
> - mobile
> - e-mail
> 
> My question is : How can I identify a customer or a supplier ?
> 
> Because :
>> A customer/supplier hasn't ever got a surname and a givenname
> example:
> - we could have :
> sn        = smith
> givenname =
> - Or :
> sn        =
> givenname = john
> 
>> A customer/supplier has got a phonenumber OR phonenumber2 OR a
> e-mail OR a mobile. In fact, we don't know all the attributes :-(
> 
> 
> I must identify the customers and the suppliers because I must create
> add/modify/delete PHP pages for the LDAP tree.
> 
> 
> Thanks for all,
> Thomas
> 
> 
>