Patent 7720881 was granted and assigned to Red Hat on May, 2010 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A method and apparatus for managing group based roles in a directory server is described. In one embodiment, a group of entries is defined in the directory server. One or more of the entries possess a group based role. The group based role points to one or more groups. Entries that belong to a group pointed by the group based role also possess the group based role.