Hostname aliases in LDAP and phpLDAPadmin

Question

What is the best method of storing multiple hostname aliases in LDAP? Currently, the hosts file I wish to migrate has many entries such as

172.24.3.54    workstation114.example.net wks114 exphost3

From my testing, using device and ipHost classes works fine, using the ipHostNumber attribute and multiple cn attributes for the different hostnames. However, using the canonical hostname's cn for the rdn then causes problems with phpLDAPadmin, which refuses to let you edit the aliases later.

Is there a better way of implementing this setup, or is this something I'll need to hack around in phpLDAPadmin to fix?

Answer 1

It is indeed a problem with phpLDAPadmin, and there is nothing wrong with having multiple cn attributes - we switched to Apache Directory Studio instead which has no problems in maintaining this structure.