Re: Question

[Steve Fisher <s.a.fisher@btinternet.com>]

Hi Steven

To represent relationships with the LDAP/X.500 user information model you
can either use DIT subtree inclusion (e.g. group entry at the top of the and
member attributes underneath that entry) or use appropriately named
relationship attributes (having a attribute syntax of DN) -  and there are
some generally useful relatinship attributes define din X.520. In the latter
case, no checks are made by the directory server that the entry pointed to
by the relationship entry actually exists.

You might also want to look at the groupOfNames object class defined in
X.521.

regards

Steve Fisher

Steve Fisher
BT Syncordia Solutions T&I
0771 310 7125
0118 975 0560
s.a.fisher@btinternet.com




----- Original Message -----
From: "Steven Livingstone" <s.livingstone@btinternet.com>
To: "DSML" <dsml@oasis-open.org>
Sent: 01 August 2000 00:07
Subject: Question


> Hi All -
> i have an implementation question and my LDAP skills are currently "in
> transit", so it may not be too difficult.
>
> I am representing my ADSI structure in DSML as as there seem to be few
> examples, I am going a lot on intuition and the specification. I am fine
at
> representing classes and assigning them attributes to create schemas and
> instances.
>
> The question I have relates mainly to how to use DSML to represent a user
> belonging to a particular group (class).
> I have created a class to describe my user, a class to describe a book,
but
> how do I say the first is a member of the second?
>
> I have some ideas, but none that make an awful lot of sense, so help would
> be appreciated.
>
> thanks -
> Steven
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