On Thursday, February 18, 2016 10:27:07 AM William Brown wrote:
> > Hi William,
> > 
> > thank you for the explanation.  Does this mean, whenever an application 
> > accesses the dynamic group, the  memberURL attribute(s) will be sent back
> > to  the app? After this, it's on the application to create a new ldap
> > operation using the parts of the memberURL ?
> > 
> > But if so, the host part of the url would not be correct, or?  ldap:///  
> > refers to the local directory server itself. Means, to get it working,
> > there  must  be the name of the directory server included as like
> > ldap://ldap1.example.org/ ?
> 
> I've not got a huge amount of experience with the memberUrl functionality.
> As I understand it, the client application is responsible as you say
> (unless we had the plugin)
> 
> 
> I think in this case, the client application sees the ldap:/// and just
> parses out the filter / base / scope, and uses that information only
> against the current connected DS. So no, you don't need
> ldap://ldap.example.com in your Url.
> 
> 
> I think this is up to the client application though, so it would be well
> worth you testing this in a staging environment.
> 
> I have created a ticket for the addition of a memberUrl expansion plugin, so
> that sometime in the future we can address your needs.
> 
> https://fedorahosted.org/389/ticket/48664
> 
> 
> *if* we create this plugin, then your client application does *not* need to
> be memberUrl aware, as DS would return a set of member/memberUid attrs
> dynamically generated from that list.
> 
> 
> I hope this helps you. 


Great! Thanks a lot again! -)

cheers, Frank
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