Re: multiple roots under one DSE

["Jake Ochs" <jochs@weirdtable.org>]

Yes, but what do I set as the rootDN? Using the null suffix as a root, I
tried to just set the rootDN to Manager, but I am not allowed to login!

----- Original Message -----
From: "Pierangelo Masarati" <masarati@aero.polimi.it>
To: "Jake Ochs" <jochs@weirdtable.org>
Cc: <openldap-software@OpenLDAP.org>
Sent: Tuesday, May 07, 2002 5:07 AM
Subject: Re: multiple roots under one DSE


> Jake Ochs wrote:
> >
> > I know that its possible to have muliple roots in one OpenLDAP
> > implementation. What's I'd like to know is how to have the roots appear
as
> > children to the rootDSE. Essentially, I'd like each root to be
accessable
> > using its name as the Base DN for some LDAP clients, but have some
> > superusers be able to search easily across all the roots by not
specifying a
> > base DN and just hitting the rootDSE. I  do not want to do something
like
> > RootDSE =.com and everything else is a subnode of that.
>
> You can define "" as suffix for a database and add each
> naming context as entry of that database.
>
> Pierangelo.
>
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