Re: How do I "reuse" ldap informations

["Kurt D. Zeilenga" <Kurt@OpenLDAP.org>]

LDAP does not offer attribute value aliasing.  Hence,
slapd(8) does not provide such, at least not as a
core feature (one could likely implement something as
an overlay).

Kurt

At 09:18 AM 10/21/2005, Michele Marcionelli wrote:
>Hello,
>
>is ther a "simple" way to "reuse" ldap information without duplicating them (like a kind of symbolic-link ;-)?
>
>For instance I have a user like this on:
>
>dn: uid=testuser,ou=People,dc=domain,dc=org
>uid: testuser
>cn:  Testname
>objectClass: account
>objectClass: posixAccount
>objectClass: top
>objectClass: shadowAccount
>userPassword: ******
>loginShell: /bin/sh
>uidNumber: 555
>gidNumber: 555
>homeDirectory: /home/testuser
>gecos:  Testname
>
>
>And want to have exactly the same user (i.e. uid + userPassword) somewhere else with another, let say homeDirectory, like in
>
>dn: uid=testuser,ou=another_People,dc=math,dc=ethz,dc=ch
>
>Is that possible? Or maybe I'm on the wrong way to do that...
>
>This could be useful, because the user has to change only once the password for all "services"...
>
>Thanks in advance,
>Michele
>
>PS: I'm using OpenLDAP-2.2.26
>
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