Re: parent DN and deref control

--On Thursday, October 01, 2015 10:48 PM +0200 Ivan Nejgebauer <ian(a)uns.ac.rs&gt; 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. > > (More details: the parentDN part is fairly straightforward, given the > entryDN implementation as a model. However, the deref overlay can't use > dynamic attributes [you can try the unmodified slapd with deref and > entryDN], so I wrote a nasty hack to make it work with parentDN. Not > extensively tested, e.g., I'm not sure it would work "" as the parent.) If you want it considered for inclusion in OpenLDAP, please file an ITS as per <http://www.openldap.org/devel/contributing.html>