"Shane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Hi,
>
> This may sound like a bit of a crazyish question but comes from a need to
> "hack" our way around a poor original LDAP layout with little time and
> resources to throw at the problem at the moment ...so, the problem is.
>
> We currently have all of our users under: ou=people,dc=xyz,dc=com,dc=au
>
> Our new layout we'd like to have users at:
> ou=users,ou=contact,dc=xyz,dc=com,dc=au
>
> Easy so far. To avoid having to maintain two lists of users until every
> machine using LDAP for auth can be updated we're hoping there is some way
> ou=people could "refer" to ou=contacts,ou=users.
>
> Using a referral object didn't seem to work, and in fact seemed to take
> out our test ldap server when we tried, though admittedly that could have
> been due to mis-use of the referral object.

As you have a rather historic version, back-ldap and rewrite rules
could do the job. The actual releases could handle this by attaching
the relay overlay.

-Dieter

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Dieter Klünter | Systemberatung
http://www.dkluenter.de
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