2014-04-29 15:32 GMT+02:00 Dan White <[email protected]>:

> On 04/29/14 14:57 +0200, Sylvain wrote:
>
>> Hi !
>>
>> I have a branch "ou=people" where RDN are in the form "X1234" and NEVER
>> change for one people.
>> Ex. : uid=X1234,ou=people,dc=example,dc=org
>>
>> In this node, I have the login under "eduPersonPrincipalName" attribute
>> which MAY change.
>>
>> Some applications doesn't allow us to define which login to use and so
>> take
>> "uid" attribute by default, not so cool.
>>
>> Is there any possibility in OpenLDAP to duplicate dynamically an OU with
>> another RDN to have for example :
>> uid=sylvain,ou=peoplebis,dc=example,dc=org ?
>>
>
> The rwm overlay should handle this. Point your broken applications to a
> unique suffix (e.g. dc=example,dc=org,dc=brokenapps), which overwrites the
> incoming DN to use eduPersonPrincipalName instead of uid. See slapo-rwm(5).
>

You could also use alias if the application supports them. With LSC (
http://lsc-project.org) it is really is to create a synchronization task
that will create aliases in a new branch.

Clément.

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