Re: attribute writing: can an overlay do this?

[Pierangelo Masarati <masarati@aero.polimi.it>]

Hallvard B Furuseth wrote:
> Pierangelo Masarati writes:
> > Stefano Zanmarchi wrote:
> > > Hallo,
> > > I hope someone can give me a hand on this issue.
> > > I'd like my ldap server to automaitcally set the value of an attribute,
> > > based on the value of another.
> > > In the simplest version I'd like it to copy the value of an attribute into
> > > another attribute, whenever the first one gets modified.
> > > (...)
> > If your question is: can an overlay do this?  the answer is: yes
> > If your question is: does an existing overlay (among those distributed 
> > by OpenLDAP) do this?  the answer is no (AFAIK).
>
> Maybe rwm should be enhanced to support that?  Only one of the
> attributes would be stored in the directory.  rwm would be
> configured to copy and rename instead of just rename the attribute
> in search results.  In filters, it'd rename the other way.

OK for coexisting virtual and real attrs; I'm not keen to having virtual 
attrs with *mucked* values neither on the fly nor in directory.  Not 
with slapo-rwm(5), at least.

p.