Re: One user in different OU's

[Aleksander Adamowski <aleksander.adamowski.openldap@altkom.pl>]

Colin Chalmers wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I'm just trying to touch base with how I perceive Ldap to work, which I
> think is along the Netscape lines.
>
> An OrgPerson is part of the people OU such as ou=people,o=company,c=nl
>
> But what I really want to do is associate that person with an actual ou,
> or several ou's actually. So I would have all my users in ou=people but
> that same person is also part of ou=development AND ou=sales.
> I'm not sure how I can define this(in Ldif), if it's correct use of Ldap
> and if one doesn't get conflicts with DN's, which are supposed to uniquely
> identify a user.
>  
Just try specifying multiple values for the ou attribute by listing it 
on multiple lines, e.g.:

ou: people
ou: sales
ou: development

A search filter (ou=people) should match that entry, as well as 
(ou=sales) and (ou=development).

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