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Re: attribute pointers



Great!  Thanx for clearing that up.

Dane Foster
http://www.equitytg.com
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Adam Williams" <awilliam@whitemice.org>
To: "Dane Foster" <dfoster@equitytg.com>
Cc: "OpenLDAP Mailling List" <openldap-software@OpenLDAP.org>
Sent: Monday, March 04, 2002 1:03 PM
Subject: Re: attribute pointers


> >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.
>
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