LDAP schema questions

Andrew Bartlett abartlet at samba.org
Thu Jun 8 11:12:37 EDT 2006


On Thu, 2006-06-08 at 22:44 +1000, Luke Howard wrote:
> >> Having all the user's information in a single object will help in
> >> administration.
> >
> >I just don't buy this.  And in any case, if there is the need to keep
> >these entries close to each other, why not put them 'under' the user in
> >the tree, ensuring they must be deleted with the user? 
> 
> There are cases whether either is useful. Using an auxiliary class gives
> you the flexibility to adopt either approach.

Yep.  For the vast majority of cases, where a user only has one
principal, I would of course like to see it on the user's record.  It is
the 'a user might have multiple principals, so we need this complex
attribute' thing that I don't buy.

Andrew Bartlett

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Andrew Bartlett                                http://samba.org/~abartlet/
Authentication Developer, Samba Team           http://samba.org
Student Network Administrator, Hawker College  http://hawkerc.net
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