Re: renaming an entry referenced in another object

[Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com>]

Kurt D. Zeilenga wrote:

> At 08:52 AM 9/17/2004, François Beretti wrote:
>  
>
> > Ok, I respect this choice. Is there a plugin for slapd that could handle such a behavior ?
> >    
>
> In the LDAP/X.500 model, one should first try to avoid
> renaming problems by simply avoiding renaming and then, when
> renaming is absolutely necessary, use alias and referral
> objects to refer applications to the new entry name.
> Also, using some sort of indirection location method in
> applications can make them immune to renaming issues.
> For instance, locating objects by UUID instead of name
> will make the application immune to name changes.
>  
The NameAndOptionalUUID syntax may be of interest here. Although I 
believe the original X.500 designers got this wrong; to be of any use it 
should have been UUIDAndOptionalName.

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