> On Oct 17, 2013, at 4:33 PM, Aaron Richton <[email protected]> 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.
