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Re: parent DN and deref control



Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote:
> --On Thursday, October 01, 2015 10:48 PM +0200 Ivan Nejgebauer <ian@uns.ac.rs>
> wrote:
> 
>> On 09/30/2015 09:19 PM, Michael Ströder wrote:
>>> I have a use-case where it would be handy to use the deref control to
>>> request attributes from an entry's parent entry. But this would require
>>> kind of a pseudo-attribute 'parentDN' (similar to 'entryDN').
>>>
>>> Anybody aware whether such a thing is already available?
>>
>> I've attached my implementation -- hope it helps. The patch is against
>> REL_ENG_2_4.
>>
>> (More details: the parentDN part is fairly straightforward, given the
>> entryDN implementation as a model. However, the deref overlay can't use
>> dynamic attributes [you can try the unmodified slapd with deref and
>> entryDN], so I wrote a nasty hack to make it work with parentDN. Not
>> extensively tested, e.g., I'm not sure it would work "" as the parent.)
> 
> If you want it considered for inclusion in OpenLDAP, please file an ITS as per
> <http://www.openldap.org/devel/contributing.html>

I'd volunteer to write the I-D for 'parentDN'.

Ciao, Michael.

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