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.