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List:       openldap-general
Subject:    Re: A person in multiple ou's.
From:       "Richard Ellerbrock" <richarde () eskom ! co ! za>
Date:       1999-12-13 8:35:35
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> 
> Steven Sonntag wrote:
> > 
> > Novell's Directory Services (NDS) directory supports aliases and has done 
> for
> > several years
> 
> Do people use this feature much?

Yes! In a replicated environments where certain ou's sit on either side of slow WAN \
links this is ideal. It is also used extensively by us for authentication. Most apps \
do not understand hierarchical directories and only work in flat environments. So we \
are forced to alias users into ou's (containers) which only the application knows \
about. The application then authenticates against the aliased copy of the users info.

--
Richard Ellerbrock
richarde@eskom.co.za


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