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Re: memberOf

On Fri, Jun 23, 2006 at 10:46:36AM -0600, Pavel Jbanov wrote:
> Thank you for the reply.
> 
> I see what you're saying... I found some past discussions on this topic:
> http://www.openldap.org/lists/openldap-software/200204/msg00756.html
> 
> I'm just trying to support one standard mechanism, but it appears that 
> there is none...
> Active Directory does support 'dynamic' memberOf attribute which made me 
> assume that it's some kind of a standard (I said that I'm very new to LDAP).

OpenLDAP does support dynamic groups, you could take a look into that. Given a
memberOf-like attribute in the user's entry, a group could be automatically
built on-the-fly by slapd:
http://www.openldap.org/faq/data/cache/1209.html