Re: Questions about back-sql

[Adam Williams <awilliam@whitemice.org>]

On Sat, 2004-01-03 at 06:25, Pierangelo Masarati wrote:
> Nikola Ivancevic wrote:
> > There are several posts that consider using multiclassing with back-sql.
> > But I cannot find any answer to this topic.
> > Does anybody use this successfully? Some examples?
> > I would very appreciate any information regarding this topic.
> > 
> >  >The manpage talks about making use of the ldap_entry_objclasses
> >  >table in order to add additional objectClass attributes to each entry
> >  >as desired.  I've tried to do this (my default objectClass is
> >  >inetOrgPerson, and I've added a couple of objectClasses including
> >  >person and organizationalPerson) but, although the extra objectClass
> >  >attributes are included with a given entry returned by ldapsearch, I
> >  >am unable to filter on the extra attributes as the documentation
> >  >seems to suggest is possible.  Is there some way to rectify this?
> inetOrgPerson inherits from person and organizationalPerson
> so it is totally useless to add the latter; 

Useless perhaps, but required.  An object of "inetOrgPerson" has to have
objectclasses of "orgPerson", "Person", and "top" in order to satisfy
the structural objectclass chain.

> It is likely they
> get filtered out somewhere when dealing with objectclass
> inheritance.  Moreover, back-sql provides only a subset of the
> functionalities of a real DSA, so don't be surprised if you
> can't make it behave as you expect.  Would you mind investigating
> a more significant multiclass case?

It doesn't support searching by anything but the primary objectclass. :(