RE: creating links

["Mattison, Jacob" <JMattison@uarts.edu>]

See http://www.openldap.org/lists/openldap-software/200311/msg00448.html


> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-openldap-software@OpenLDAP.org
> [mailto:owner-openldap-software@OpenLDAP.org]On Behalf Of Lukas Meyer
> Sent: Friday, January 16, 2004 9:49 AM
> To: Turbo Fredriksson; openldap-software@OpenLDAP.org
> Subject: Re: creating links
> 
> 
> Turbo Fredriksson wrote:
> 
> >Quoting Lukas Meyer <lukas@msys.ch>:
> >
> >  
> >
> >>Let us assume I created two knots in an ldap tree. First is
> >>ou=people,o=example and second ou=others,o=example. Now I create the
> >>object cn=John Doe,ou=people,o=example. Now I want to create like a
> >>link in ou=other,o=example that points  to the person cn=John
> >>Doe,ou=people,o=example. Is this possible? And if so, how? Because I
> >>need to put the same person under different objects and they should
> >>all point to the same person in case someone is going to change an
> >>attribute of this person, the attributes of all "links" 
> have to change.
> >>
> >>Does anyone knows how I can do that?
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >This is called 'referals'. I'm note sure how to do them with 
> out looking
> >in the manual, but it's quite simple if I remember correctly 
> (never done
> >them myself)...
> >  
> >
> Thanks to all for answering. I found now some more information and I 
> think I don't need the referrals because theres an other object named 
> alias. I'm trying to use this but the server won't accept my 
> ldif file.
> 
> Does anyone has any example ldifs in which he/she is using aliases?
> 
> regards
> LM
>