Re: dynamic groups
Howard Chu wrote:
One last question that may need an answer:
what groups does user X belong to?
Obviously you need to perform a search to determine this. And with the current
indexing mechanisms, dynamic groups will fail to be matched since they don't
actually contain an indexed static member list. If this is the question you're
trying to answer, the solution is simply to maintain a list of dynamic group
objects (as your current code already does) but not to populate them. Instead,
just use a search response callback and see if "member" is a part of the
filter. If it is, iterate through the dynamic groups and test the entry whose
DN is in the filter assertion against all of the dynamic group filters. This
solution will use far less memory than your approach, and it will run
efficiently for just about all use cases.
This was actually the first idea we thought of, we concluded that it
would slow the search down, because then the algorithmic complexity of
the search would be O(n), with n as the number of dynamic groups. We
think this would be somewhat against the idea of LDAP directories, where
the number of search operations far outweigh the number of updates. It
is a trade-off between update speed and search speed, but we think that
the search speed is essential, and the update operations are not our
primary concern speed-wise.
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