Hi Dimitri
Thank you for the suggestions I'll try your solution with the member
attribute and see how it goes.
Thank you for your prompt answer
Marcello
On Sep 12, 2012, at 4:44 AM, Dmitri Pal wrote:
> On 09/12/2012 02:52 AM, Marcello Giannoni UCLA wrote:
>> Hi I'm currently using the free-ipa server on red hat enterprise 6.2.
>> Someone asked me to implement a distribution list on the system.
>> I would like to set up free-ipa in a way that I can create expandable groups
>> that when I connect trough an email client and I type the group defined in
>> the ipa-server the group will expand all the email of user subscribed to
>> that particular group.
>>
>> Do I have to change the dif.ldif schema in order to achieve this ?
>> I have heard that someone resolved this problem using the
>> objectClass=groupOfNames but I couldn't find any explanation on how to
>> implement this.
>>
>> I don't know if the problem lies on the type of group to use or the base
>> search on the ldap client, I need some clue on how to do this.
>>
>> I hope someone can spread some light on this
>>
>
> I am not sure but suspect that you need a filter for the mail client to
> expand the list of users.
> The attribute that would help with that is "member". It is a multi value
> attribute of the group object that contains the list of all the users
> that are directly or indirectly (via nested groups) are members of the
> specific group.
>
> If you need more than user DNs but user entries then you might want to
> go the other way around.
> Use the entered group to search for all the users who's memberOf
> attribute contains given group.
>
>> Thank you in advance
>> Marcello
>>
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