On 01.10.2015. 22:45, Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote:
> --On Thursday, October 01, 2015 10:48 PM +0200 Ivan Nejgebauer
> <ian(a)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.