RE: Multiple names for base dn?

["Matthew Hardin" <mhardin@symas.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-openldap-software@OpenLDAP.org [mailto:owner-openldap-
> software@OpenLDAP.org] On Behalf Of Daniel Henninger
> Sent: Thursday, June 24, 2004 11:11 AM
> To: openldap-software@OpenLDAP.org
> Subject: Multiple names for base dn?
> 
> Folk,
> 
> I'm switching our base dn from o=NCSU,c=US to dc=ncsu,dc=edu.
> Unfortunately, a lot of folk are currently using o=NCSU,c=US.  In an ideal
> world, I'd like to see o=NCSU,c=US effectively be an alias to
> dc=ncsu,dc=edu.  Is this possible?  Any suggestions?

Use back-ldap and a set of rewrite rules to rewrite dc=ncsu,dc=edu to
o=ncsu,c=us. Back-ldap will handle traffic to/from o=ncsu,c=us, and the
"real" backend will handle traffic to dc=ncsu,dc=edu.

See slapd-ldap(5) and slapd-meta(5) for additional information.

Matthew Hardin
Symas Corporation
Packaged, certified, and supported LDAP software:
http://www.symas.net/download

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