At 11:37 AM 11/1/2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm using OpenLDAP to authenticate users. For reasons I won't go >into much detail about, I need to make OpenLDAP return objects, that do >not exist, as if they did. > > For example, if I do a query with the following search filter: >(&(objectClass=person)(uid=foobar)) I need to make OpenLDAP return a >LDAP result with the attributes and values from the search filter if the >directory returns 0 matches. If, on the other hand, the object does >exist, it would return the object from the directory. > >I'd like to know if anyone has any good ideas to make OpenLDAP function >like I've described.
I would suggest you consider writing an overlay that caught returned messages and inserted a entry as desired. See servers/slapd/overlays and contrib/slapd-overlays for examples. Kurt
