Re: timedate stamps as attributes in ldap???

[Dieter Kluenter <dieter@dkluenter.de>]

John Von Essen <john@essenz.com> writes:

> Not sure if this is even possible. But consider the following:
>
> We setup a real basic ldap structure:
>
> dn: uid=bob,dc=domain,dc=com
> uid: bob
> cn: Robert
> age: 47
>
> I left out objectclasses for brevity. So we have an ldap server with a
> couple thousand entries like the above. Now, say I add an attribute
> called datetime:. And I set this value to the current data-time for
> all the entries in my server:
>
> dn: uid=bob,dc=domain,dc=com
> uid: bob
> cn: Robert
> age: 47
> datetime: 8/6/2004 16:67 EST
>
> A few days go bye, and I need to make a change for a given user. Using
> ldapmodify I change bob's age from 47 to 48. Is there a mechanism in
> OpenLDAP that can make the following happen:
>
> dn: uid=bob,dc=domain,dc=com
> uid: bob
> cn: Robert
> age: 48
> datetime: 8/10/2004 22:67 EST
>
> The datetime gets updated to the exact time of when I issued the
> ldapmodify command to update bob's age. I need this kind of
> functionality in my ldap server. I need to be able to do ldapsearch
> search queries based on the date-time the record was last modified or
> even added. It seems reasonable that this kind of functionality could
> be available?!

The operational attribute modifyTimestamp will do this. The timestamp
is in Zulu time.

-Dieter

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