Hi Phil, Phil Pennock <exim-us...@spodhuis.org> (Do 09 Apr 2009 13:03:34 CEST): > On 2009-04-09 at 10:45 +0200, Heiko Schlittermann wrote: > > yesterday I configured an Exim server to do LDAP queries, but somehow > > I'm not satisfied. May be I was blind or too stupid ... > > > > In some LDAP directory (here: ADS) there are "mail groups" > > Does ADS have the concept of overlays, which OpenLDAP has?
I do not know almost anything about ADS, I'm using it (it's a customer administering the ADS, and I'm not sure if the customer knows anything else than how to click ... :/) > I have a local globnixGroup auxiliary group which is pretty much > identical (by design) to groupOfNames but for being auxiliary and for ... > After this, any update to the 'member' attribute of any object with > objectClass globnixGroup will automatically update the 'memberOf' > attributes of the corresponding objects. > > So by updating the equivalent to your mailgroups: > > > dn: cn=edv,ou=mailgroups,o=org > > mail: e...@org.de > > member: cn=hans,ou=users,o=org <- CN here, no mailbox > > member: cn=paul,ou=users,o=org ... or mail address > > the cn=hans,ou=users,o=org andcn=paul,ou=users,o=org entries would > automatically gain: > memberOf cn=edv,ou=mailgroups,o=org > as operational attributes (so you have to explicitly request them > (either by name or by requesting all operational attributes with +). This solution look pretty clever. I'll keep it in mind for a case where I can do more on the side of the directory service. Thanks for your response. -- Heiko
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