Fedora directory users - Jun 2005 - auto dn lookups

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.

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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.
>
>  
>

Ben Steeves wrote:
>We have a few fields on people records which are essentially
>"pointers" to other records, for example:
>
>  
>
This is what class of service was designed to do.
(well, one of the things it was deisgned to do).
You can configure a COS such that the department
attribute is inherited in a specified subtree.