Re: Dynamic group based on arbitrary value

[Quanah Gibson-Mount <quanah@stanford.edu>]

--On Monday, August 01, 2005 9:15 AM -0500 Digant C Kasundra 
<digant@uta.edu> wrote:

> Hello everyone,
>
> I've been asked to make groups available based on attributes, but there
> are 6 or 7 different attributes that these particular programmers are
> interested in.  Rather than add a new attributetype for URLs of each of
> those attributes in order to do dyngroup expansion, I was wondering if
> there is a way to say "form groups based on values of attribute X."
>
> The Red Hat Directory Server claims to have this functionality and I
> thought it might be nice to have an overlay that could do something
> similar.  ((Although in the issue at hand that I'm dealing with, I think
> what the programmers are doing is a complete misuse of LDAP)).

Digant,

Dynamic groups are simply formed based on filters.  I don't understand what 
stops you from doing this now by simply using an OR'd filter to create a 
group?  Or maybe I'm not entirely understanding the question.

--Quanah

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