Re: Rename attribute before return

[Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com>]

Pierangelo Masarati wrote:
> To answer Quanah's question, I think your ITS, as answered by Kurt, is 
> now entirely fulfilled by 2.3 code, by using back-relay and slapo-rwm; 
> the only thing it doesn't allow is to use the requested name instead 
> of the canonical one, e.g. returning "userid" instead of "uid" when 
> "userid" is requested (this was a long debated question; I see the 
> issue and I agree with the common answer that the current behavior is 
> preferable; for those that still wish this to be possible, the answer 
> is that it cannot be done with an overlay, so there's very little 
> chance that it will ever be possible with OpenLDAP, except by hacking 
> the code).
Well, it can be done, but you need to duplicate each entry before being 
returned, and generate new AttributeDescriptions corresponding to the 
desired attributes...


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