>>> Dieter Klünter <[email protected]> schrieb am 02.09.2020 um 19:04 in Nachricht <[email protected]>: > Am Wed, 2 Sep 2020 11:11:56 +0200 > schrieb Olaf Hopp <[email protected]>: > >> Hi everybody, >> >> we are at the point of reorganising our LDAP. >> Currently we only have posixGroups, but in future we also want to >> support groupOfNames or groupOfUniqueNames >> My question what is the common sense of usage ? >> groupOfNames or groupOfUniqueNames ? >> >> I know your answers, you will say "it depends on your applications" >> but currently I have no application using it. All my current >> applications use my posixGroups. I just want to extend my LDAP for >> future use cases. >> >> So what to take : groupOf Names or groupOfUniqueNames besides >> posixGroup ? > > I would vote for groupOfnames. If you prefer groupOfUniqueNames you > should provide uniqueness. > > https://ldapwiki.com/wiki/GroupOfUniqueNames%20vs%20groupOfNames > https://ldapwiki.com/wiki/UniqueMember > > The use of posixgroup depends on your requirements.
Actually I had never considered adding suplicates to a groupOfNames, mostly because I cannot imaging a use case; anyone have a usew case? > > -Dieter > > -- > Dieter Klünter | Systemberatung > http://sys4.de > GPG Key ID: E9ED159B > 53°37'09,95"N > 10°08'02,42"E
