Re: overloading cn= in the DIT

[ren <[e-mail]>]

Andrew,
  
> (ps I should make an honourable mention of ITAXA, which at least
> looks at the object class of the returned entries _and_sorts_them_.
> Way to go.)

Yes, ITAXA has a nice grapical interface, but it still uses commonName
for its searches on People, Devices, Networks etc.
It will return any match not knowing if it is a real device/person/network..

The only current solution (i can think of at the moment) is to:
1 - do a search using cn=
2 - traverse the returned matched list
    2a - check that each entry DOES NOT have a 
         an attribute entry for some of the other types
         (eg if you are searching for People, and the objectClass
             attribute is "applicationProcess" you can then remove 
             this entry)
3 - Present list to user

Step 2a is the one that needs more work with some definite guidelines
as to what is and isn't a Person.

Cheers

Renato Iannella
Senior Research Fellow
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