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Re: proxy a single attribute
Thanks, Howard, for the straightforward response. At least I know for sure
now that it can't be done, and I can stop banging my head on the wall :-)
On 5/9/03 12:34 AM, "Howard Chu" <hyc@highlandsun.com> wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: owner-openldap-software@OpenLDAP.org
>> [mailto:owner-openldap-software@OpenLDAP.org]On Behalf Of Brian Jones
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm just getting into some of the 'back ldap' functionality,
>> but my brain is
>> a little fried, and I think I've misunderstood one or two
>> fundamental things
>> about it.
>
>> I currently am set up so that if you search *my* test LDAP
>> server, but set
>> your base to 'ou=proxy, dc=their,dc=server', you'll actually
>> be searching a
>> completely different server.
>
> This is the way back-ldap is intended to be used.
>
>> However, what I really *want*
>> to do when I go
>> into production is simply proxy requests for certain
>> attributes, getting the
>> rest from the local server.
>
> We've explored this on the -devel list. OpenLDAP doesn't do this.
>
>> Is there no way to do something like this in my LDIF:
>>
>> dn: cn=jonesy, dc=mydomain,dc=org
>> objectclass:..
>> ....
>> physicalDeliveryOfficeName: ldap://other.dapserver.org/ldapquerystringhere
>
> No. The content of this attribute is just a Directory String, there is no way
> to store a value here that will be interpreted as a special pointer to
> something else.
>
>> My feeling is that this will be disgustingly slow, but it
>> would make some
>> other things easier (which aren't really dependent on speed).
>> Is there a way
>> to get the same effect somehow?
>
> You can do all kinds of manipulations using back-perl, as one example. You
> might consider just adding a labeledURI attribute to the entry and having
> your application chase that itself.
>
> -- Howard Chu
> Chief Architect, Symas Corp. Director, Highland Sun
> http://www.symas.com http://highlandsun.com/hyc
> Symas: Premier OpenSource Development and Support
>