Re: virtual attribute

Howard Chu <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.openldap.general
Message-ID <[email protected]> 
Liu, Michael wrote:
> Hi,
>
> We are using OpenLDAP as a frontend proxy for another LDAP server on the
> backend. On the backend server, "displayname" attribute is not populated
> but cn is populated. We like to fake out a virtual "displayname"
> attribute on the frontend proxy OpenLDAP server, and the value of that
> attribute needs to come from "cn" attribute.
>
> Is there a way to do this?
> Any help is highly appricated.

Yes. Read slapo-rwm(5) and use attribute mapping.

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