Re: attribute pointers

[Adam Williams <awilliam@whitemice.org>]

>John said>This will work *if* the application that wants to see 'gender'
>So what happens if the application modified the value of the gender
>attribute? Will the applications that want to see 'sex' get the new values
>if the gender attribute value is modified?  In a nutshell, are multi-named
>attribute values bi-directional?

Attributes in reality have no names.  Attribute names are aliases for
the attribute's OID.  The OID is the "real" key.  So an attribute
updates 'sex' which is just 1.2.3,  that 1.2.3 has two aliases is of no
consequence.