On Oct 17, 2013, at 4:33 PM, Aaron Richton richton@nbcs.rutgers.edu wrote:
On Thu, 17 Oct 2013, MI wrote:
What I would like to do is to create a new database in my DIT, call it say defaultPrinters, which contains left side username, right side printer; i.e.: [...] Additionally, I would like to be able to add an allowable attribute under People, named defaultPrinters, which points to the database that I am trying to create.
So you have uid=richton,ou=People,dc=example,dc=com and you'd like to add:
defaultPrinters: ou=Printers,dc=example,dc=com
Correct, and uncertain how to do this, I assume via an LDIF? Didn't mention this earlier, I am using Oracle Directory Server Enterprise Edition, shouldn't matter though.
as an attribute to uid=richton? Or to ou=People? I'm not clear on that.
Ideally, as an attribute to uid=richton, but not required.
Regardless, what does the indirection accomplish? Why not just give the users their favorites:
How, and where in my DIT should I define this?
uid=richton,ou=People,dc=example,dc=com [...] defaultPrinter;x-os-unix: lp1onfire defaultPrinter;x-app-cad: bigplotter defaultPrinter;x-os-windows: \laser\printer
perhaps utilizing slapo-constraint(5) to make sure that all defaultPrinter values have a matching entry along the lines of
cn=lp1onfire,ou=Printers,dc=example,dc=com [...] printer-uri: ipp://127.0.0.1/
Not sure what this would accomplish, the new DB doesn't have to point at the Printers DB.