I have an example configuration at home that uses to repositories in
combination with a MergingAttributeDao.  It may be helpful, but I won't get
to it until I'm at home, so if you find one before then.. ;-)

The documentation for PersonDirectory is actually pretty good:
http://developer.jasig.org/projects/person-directory/1.1.2/

Cheers,
Scott


On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 10:00 AM, Marvin Addison
<[email protected]>wrote:

> > 1. For Active Directory, what if users are split into different OUs in a
> > domain? For instance, staff in a "Staff" OU and students in a "Students"
> > OU directly in the root of the domain. I tried leaving the baseDN for
> > the attributeRepository as "dc=school,dc=edu" but that gets a
> > continuation error. Is there a way to search multiple OUs?
>
> The error above is a known issue,
> http://www.ja-sig.org/issues/browse/PERSONDIR-53.  It _would_ be
> possible to search below the OU level if the PersonDirectory
> developers would simply apply the patch that Scott attached to that
> issue, but their lack of movement on the issue to date suggests it
> won't be fixed in the near future.  Sorry.
>
> The workaround is to create multiple attribute repository beans, each
> with the scope of the OU you wish to search.  We do something similar
> where different authentication handlers produce different principals,
> requiring different LDAP queries for attributes.  We handle that using
> two attribute repositories and it works well.  I recall, but don't
> have a reference, that others have posted to the list with a use case
> similar to yours and have solved the problem with multiple attribute
> repositories.  You might try searching the archives for those if you
> would like some concrete configuration examples.
>
> Good luck,
> M
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