Re: Possible to create "link" between trees in openldap 2.3

[Quanah Gibson-Mount <quanah@zimbra.com>]

--On Tuesday, July 31, 2007 3:58 PM -0700 Ski Kacoroski 
<ckacoroski@nsd.org> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am not sure what the correct terminology is, but as part of a major
> re-work of our OpenLDAP directory we are moving from:
>
> ou=people, dc=nsd, dc=org
>
> to
>
> ou=people, ou=accounts, dc=nsd, dc=org.
>
> In the new server I would like to create a "link" from
>
> ou=people, dc=nsd, dc=org -> ou=people, ou=accounts, dc=nsd, dc=org.
>
> because I have 2500 email clients that have as a search base
> ou=people, dc=nsd, dc=org and my user community is not able to update
> their email clients to point to the new search base.
>
> Is it there a way to create a "link" and if so how.
>
> Thanks for your help.


Hi Ski,

Hope all is going well with you, long time no see!

Have you looked into setting up back-relay?

<http://www.openldap.org/software/man.cgi?query=slapd-relay&sektion=5&apropos=0&manpath=OpenLDAP+2.3-Release>

--Quanah


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Quanah Gibson-Mount
Principal Software Engineer
Zimbra, Inc
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