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Subject:    [ldap] Re: Antwort: Re: Are "aliases" equivalent to unix
From:       "Mark H. Wood" <mwood () IUPUI ! Edu>
Date:       2004-04-30 15:16:41
Message-ID: LYRIS-886202-717426-2004.04.30-11.16.46--ldap#progressive-comp.com () listserver ! itd ! umich ! edu
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On Fri, 30 Apr 2004, Bob Talda wrote:
> IMHO, depends on your user.  Consider the (printed) yellow pages - the
> contact information is divided up into categories, but many of the
> categories have a "See also" reference.  Is it useful?  In of itself,
> probably not; but to that user who doesn't find what they are looking for
> right there, it gives other possibilities.  How many users does this
> help?  Who knows...and I'll bet few, if any, think to mention that as a
> helpful feature when evaluating the yellow pages.

Please read what the OP wrote.  In his case the "user" is a blob of code
which is not under his control.  Given credentials and a place to
authenticate them, it decides whether to work or not depending solely on
whether the authentication service returns "authentic".  There is no human
in this process and it can't be changed.  The code apparently does not
care about "see also" and the OP cannot alter it to do so.  The OP is not
trying to set up a rich environment for intelligent users to fish in; he's
trying to get a program to do something it was not designed to do.

The question boils down to this:  will the directory service accept an
alias as part of logon credentials, and validate those credentials as if
the target of the alias had been specified instead?  That is, does it
behave like a symlink (where normal filesystem calls will automagically
dereference the link(s)) or like "see also" (which requires the reader to
do the work, which in turn requires that the reader is even aware that
there is work to be done and knows how to do it)?

- -- 
Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer   mwood@IUPUI.Edu
Open-source executable:  $0.00.  Source:  $0.00  Control:  priceless!

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