Interesting how this question is hitting a number of different mailing lists…
Here’s an edited extract of an email I’ve sent yesterday on OpenDJ mailing list:
The memberOf attribute name was used by Microsoft Active Directory with specific semantic. There is no LDAP representation of the attribute definition, but details, including OID, can be found here: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms677099(v=vs.85).aspx. It was also used by a Sun product (Delegated Administration) with another definition and semantic.
This is why we choose in Sun Directory Server, OpenDS and now OpenDJ to have a properly defined attribute with a different name: isMemberOf, operational and read-only.
My 2 cents,
Ludo
-- Ludovic Poitou http://ludopoitou.com
From: Michael Ströder michael@stroeder.com Reply: Michael Ströder michael@stroeder.com> Date: 27 Apr 2015 at 22:43:41 To: Andrew Findlay andrew.findlay@skills-1st.co.uk> Cc: openldap-technical@openldap.org openldap-technical@openldap.org> Subject: Re: Ldap challenge
Andrew Findlay wrote:
On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 06:27:39PM +0000, Ross, Daniel B. wrote:
ismemberof does not exist we have to use memberof
Memberof is fairly common. I don't think I have ever found a system that used 'ismemberof'.
'isMemberOf' is used on Sun/Oracle DSSE, Netscape/Fedora/389-DS and OpenDS/OpenDJ.
'memberOf' was originally defined in MS Active Directory and is used as default in slapo-memberof. It's configurable though.
Ciao, Michael.