Re: 'Inheriting' an attribute from a group.

[Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com>]

ian+openldap@comtek.co.uk wrote:
> Is there a recommended, 'production' way to inherit certain attributes
> from a group? Perhaps some kind of overlay?
>
> For example, if a user is in the 'users' group and the users group has
> the attribute userQuota=100 then the user will appear to have userQuota=100.
>
> If, on the other hand, userQuota=200 is set on the user then that would
> override the current value.

I don't think there's anything in the current code that does this, but you 
could modify the collect (collective attributes) overlay to do it.

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