Re: Aliasing?

Mark Smith (mcs@netscape.com)
Mon, 15 Jul 1996 09:06:29 -0700

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Eric Rosenquist wrote:
>
> On 14 Jul 96 at 13:12, Greg Rolan wrote:
>
> > I understand that LDAP (as of 3.3) doesn't support aliases in the
> > DIT.
> > Are there any plans for alias support, some hackology that may be
> > done,
> > or something obvious that I have misssed?
>
> What makes you think it doesn't support aliases? ...

What Eric says is true -- the LDAP protocol, currently at version 2,
does support aliases. In the U-M LDAP 3.3 release, ldapd supports
aliases but the standalone server (slapd) does not. I can't think of
any easy workaround (aside from writing some code to enhance slapd).

-Mark

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