AW: how do YOU use LDAP?

["Ailinger, Bernd" <Bernd.Ailinger@norcom.de>]

>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: owner-openldap-software@OpenLDAP.org
>> [mailto:owner-openldap-software@OpenLDAP.org]On Behalf Of Tony Earnshaw

>> ons, 2002-11-27 kl. 16:25 skrev Adam Williams:

>> > Or don't.  The LDAP model supports subordinate information
>> via referrals,
>> > and OpenLDAP supports them.  One can spread a single Dit
>> over multiple
>> > DSAs.
>>
>> When a BDB 4 Openldap 2.1.8 DSA gets confronted with an
>> LDAPv3-compatible Novell eDirectory 8.6 NLDAP aliased
>> attribute that it
>> doesn't understand, what does it do then? Shout "I'm Open
>> Source and I'm powerful?"

>Since referrals are processed by clients, the OpenLDAP DSA will never be
>confronted by an NDS attribute it doesn't understand.

The dn hast to be parsed by openLDAP. So the naming attributes have to be
'understood'