Re: Imprecise description for nslcd.conf "map"

[Philip Prindeville <philipp_subx [at] redfish-solutions.com>]

> On Mar 3, 2024, at 5:37 AM, Arthur de Jong <arthur@arthurdejong.org> wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 2024-02-26 at 12:59 -0700, Philip Prindeville wrote:
>> What I came up with was this, and I'm still not sure it's correct:
>> 
>> if attribute == "uidNumber" || newattribute in ("gecos", "gidNumber",
>> "homeDirectory", "loginShell", "uidNumber", "userPassword")
>>     put_quotes_around_new_attribute();
> 
> This
> 
>  map homeDirectory something
> 
> means that the something attribute will be queried in place of the
> homeDirectory attribute and the value stored in the LDAP server will be
> used. This is equivalent to:
> 
>  map homeDirectory "$something"
> 
> or
> 
>  map homeDirectory "${something}"
> 
> while
> 
>  map homeDirectory "something"
> 
> will result in no attribute being requested from the LDAP server for
> the user's home directory and the literal value something will always
> be used.


What about something like:

map homeDirectory "/home/guest/${uid}"

Where an attribute is expanded inside a literal expression?

Thanks,

-Philip


> 
> Hope this helps,
> 
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