[Fedora-directory-users] Which is better - attribute of type dn or multivalued attribute?

[Richard Megginson]

Ankur Agarwal wrote:
> Hi,
>  
> In our schema we need to have users who will belong to multiple 
> groups. These groups are independent groups and do not have any parent 
> child relationship. So while defining the ObjectClass for my user i 
> have two options:
>  
> 1) Have an attribute called - isMemberOf and make it of type 
> distinguishedName. This will be a list of all groups to which a user 
> belongs.
>  
> 2) Have a multivalued attribute - groupName.
>  
> which option makes more sense. Assume the functionalities that i need 
> to support are:
> 1) Search all users belonging to a group
> 2) edit a user to add/remove a group from profile
> 3) Delete all the users belonging to a group
Check out the Roles feature - 
http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/dir-server/ag/7.1/roles.html#1115402
>  
> regards,
> Ankur
>  
>
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