Re: Attribute Aliasing

[Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com>]

Russell Harmon wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 22:37, Dieter Kluenter<dieter@dkluenter.de>  wrote:
> > Russell Harmon<russ@eatnumber1.com>  writes:
> >
> > > I'm trying to reconfigure my existing OpenLDAP server to expose
> > > personal information under multiple attributes. I'm doing this so that
> > > both Apple's contact application and my custom software will work.
> > > I've read about rwm-map in slapo-rwm, but although it makes the new
> > > attribute accessible, it hides the old one. I need both the new and
> > > old to be accessible.
> > >
> > > For example:
> > > I have an existing attribute for a cellular phone number "cellPhone".
> > > I want to make this accessible under both the attributes "cellPhone"
> > > and "mobile"
> > >
> > > Is this possible with OpenLDAP?
> >
> > either include the evolution.schema or create your own schema and define
> > mobileTelephoneNumber superior to cellPhone.
>
> That seems to work only so far as searching for the attribute "mobile"
> will return the attribute "cellPhone". I need it to return the data in
> the attribute "cellPhone" as the attribute "mobile".

1) fix your custom software to use configurable schema, and configure it to 
use the same as Apple's.

or

2) use back-relay, and point your software at one database and the Apple 
software at the other database, and rewrite as appropriate for each app.

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