Re: mail and mailAlternateAddress

[Dan Melomedman]

On Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 03:58:22PM -0400, Scott Gifford wrote:
> 
> While we're on this topic, is there a reasonable way to reliably
> guarantee uniqueness across both the 'mail' and 'mailalternateaddress'
> attributes?  We finally stopped using 'mail' altogether, because we
> couldn't find a way to make this work without race conditions.
> 
> -----ScottG.

I think one approach would be to have something like -domain appended to
every user name (in case there are more than one domain hosted).

Another approach could be to adjust base_dn somehow
based on domain to search for, and do a search on the corresponding
organizational unit. Also the application responsible for account
generation should check whether a username already exists.