[Fedora-directory-users] auto dn lookups

[jclowser at unitedmessaging.com]

Yep - look at the class of service plugin - it does exactly what you are 
asking for.

 - Jeff

Ben Steeves wrote:

>Hi Folks,
>
>I'm wondering if anyone has tackled something like this and might have
>a suggestion for me:
>
>We have a few fields on people records which are essentially
>"pointers" to other records, for example:
>
>dn: uid=example,ou=people,dc=example,dc=com
>uid: example
>comExampleOrgUnitDN: ou=EXAM,ou=departments,dc=example,dc=com
>
>...which basically says that the person "example" is in the "EXAM"
>department.  But of course when someone looks up Mr. Example, he
>probably would like to know that he works in "Department of Examples",
>rather than the DN of the department...
>
>dn: ou=EXAM,ou=departments,dc=example,dc=com
>cn: Department of Examples
>
>So my question is: is there any trick to create a sort of dynamic
>lookup on the person's record that would "drill down" into the
>department record and pull up the cn?  My first thought is that this
>would be a sort of computed/translated field... I haven't run across
>anything describing this in the FDS documentation.
>
>Any ideas?  Basically, I want to avoid putting "Department of
>Examples" on Mr. Example's record because if the Department decided to
>change its name to the "Example Department", I'd have to manually
>adjust everyone in the department.
>
>  
>