Ivan Nejgebauer wrote: > On 01.10.2015. 22:45, 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. >>> [...] >> >> If you want it considered for inclusion in OpenLDAP, please file an >> ITS as per <http://www.openldap.org/devel/contributing.html> > > I will, once we have an I-D with the design -- the existing patch is just > a quick hack. Off the top of my head, the I-D should address questions > like: > > - Does the rootDSE have a parent (I think not, and the code behaves > accordingly); > > - What to do about alias dereferencing/DN rewriting (IMO nothing, but it > should be noted in the design.) Noted. Thinking about this a bit more teh other direction could be useful either: Having a multi-valued attribute 'subordinateDN' containing DNs of direct child entries. Could be many and therefore search limits would have to be applied. Ciao, Michael.
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