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Re: reference to other entry - question



On Wednesday, 4 July 2007, Marcin Giedz wrote:
> Gavin Henry napisaÅ(a):
> > <quote who="Marcin Giedz">
> >
> >> Is there any way to do something like this without copying all data many
> >> times.
> >>
> >> 1) there is entry: uid=user1,ou=people,dc=xx,dc=x
> >> The entry has objectClass = person, posixAccount etc.. So there is
> >> attribute userPassword.
> >>
> >> 2) there are entries:
> >> mail=user1@dom1,ou=domains,dc=xx,dc=x
> >> mail=user1@dom2,ou=domains,dc=xx,dc=x
> >> mail=user1@dom3,ou=domains,dc=xx,dc=x,
> >
> > I think your design is a bit strange. Why not have these mail attributes
> > as part of the user entry like:
> >
> > mail: ghenry@suretec.org
> > mail: ghenry@suretecsystems.com
> >
> > And then do your search. You then only need one userPassword.
>
> Answer is quite simple. I need to have different aliases and virtual
> accounts for different virtual domains. So basically I need to split
> domains and add email accounts respectively to them.

This requirement doesn't preclude the solution Gavin proposed. In fact, I have 
a system running similar to this (however using mailAlternateAddress).

Can you explain why you can't just effectively have multiple aliases which 
span multiple domains on one entry ? Is it some limitation in your MTA, or 
your configuration ?

For example, if the only reason you can't use this is because you are using 
mail as the naming attribute ... maybe you should select a different naming 
attribute?

Regards,
Buchan

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Buchan Milne
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