Dieter made a good note. But, thinking on this a bit more, why does
the location of the account entry even matter? Is the LDAP application
written against a specific container rather than using a filter to
find the accounts? If it's the latter, the only issue you would have
are any references to the original DNs (e.g., as a member in a
groupOfNames object), in which case Dieter's comment applies.

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Saturday, February 10, 2007, 1:42:17 AM, you wrote:

> 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.

> We're running openLDAP 2.2.13 on RHEL4

> TIA.
> Shane.

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