Re: Glueing together backend databases - meta, glue or chain?

[Gavin Henry <ghenry@suretecsystems.com>]

On 17 July 2012 16:06, Aaron Richton <richton@nbcs.rutgers.edu> wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Jul 2012, Pieter Baele wrote:
>
> Given databases:
>
>> --- dc=common,dc=example,dc=org
>> --- dc=shared,dc=example,dc=org
>> --- dc=companyA,dc=example,dc=org
>> --- dc=companyB,dc=example,dc=org
>> --- dc=companyC,dc=example,dc=org
>
>
>> all slaves represent this as "dc=example,dc=org"
>
>
> it looks like a really good situation for a simple glue configuration using
> the "subordinate" keyword; see slapd.conf(5).

What lives under ou=CompanyA etc? User accounts? Something we do for
this to keep the DIT level shallow, is to keep all user accounts in
ou=Users and filter based on o=CompanyA which is an attribute on that
user entry. Then you can use slapo-dynlist to create company groups
etc.

Not sure what ACLs you've got or the overall function of your
directory server to advise a new DIT.

Thanks.

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