On Thu, Apr 09, 2009 at 06:02:32PM +0200, Heiko Schlittermann wrote: > Hi Phil, > > Phil Pennock <exim-us...@spodhuis.org> (Do 09 Apr 2009 13:03:34 CEST): [...] > ... > > 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. ADS has the concept of member/memberof for years. Longer than OpenLDAP has overlays, IIRC.
It contains at least every "normal" groupmembership, but since ADS has several slightly different group-types I am not sure wheter or not memberOf contains all group-types. -- CU, Patrick. -- ## List details at http://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://wiki.exim.org/