2010/1/9 Michael Ströder <[email protected]>

> Hung Luu wrote:
> > Suppose I have the following DN's:
> >
> > inetOrgPerson:
> > [uid=alice,dc=example,dc=com]
> >
> > organizationalRole:
> > [cn=manager,ou=groups,dc=example,dc=com]
> > [cn=supervisor,ou=groups,dc=example,dc=com]
> >
> > locality:
> > [l=phoenix,ou=division,dc=example,dc=com]
> > [l=portland,ou=division,dc=example,dc=com]
> >
> > How can I store in my directory the fact that Alice is a manger at the
> > Phoenix division, but she is only a supervisor at the Portland division?
> > I know group membership is involved here, but what's the best way to
> > represent that group membership to optimize searches such as: Return all
> > the people with a specific role at a specific locality, or return all
> > the roles and localities for a person.
>
> You could also use slapo-memberof to populate the member entries with a
> back-reference to the group entries which make some queries a lot easier.
>
> Ciao, Michael.
>

Suppose I have a group of roles and a group of localities, so that I have
the following representation of group membership:

[cn=manager,ou=groups,dc=example,dc=com]
member: uid=alice,ou=people,dc=example,dc=com

[cn=supervisor,ou=groups,dc=example,dc=com]
member: uid=alice,ou=people,dc=example,dc=com

[l=phoenix,ou=divisions,dc=example,dc=com]
member: uid=alice,ou=people,dc=example,dc=com

[l=portland,ou=divisions,dc=example,dc=com]
member: uid=alice,ou=people,dc=example,dc=com

How will slapo-memberof tell me which role Alice has at which locality? What
would the query look like?

Dynamic groups look promising, but would I have to create a dynamic group
for each user-role mapping? Using cn=config, I should be able to add new
dynamic groups on the fly without restarting slapd?


Thanks,
Hung.

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