On Friday 31 December 2004 10:41, John P. Looney wrote:
> Is there a good solution to this problem?
>
We-ell... perhaps...
You know the way openldap typically backends onto a BerkeleyDB*
Well, It can backend onto SQL databases too with back-sql [1].
Slightly nontrivial to setup, and you'll still need to write stored
procs to transform from your tables to the ldap-in-sql schema (but that
could be done on trigger, maybe, for insta-update goodness). There's a
good-looking LDAP-Postgres HOWTO, though I don't know how up-to-date it
is [2]
[1] http://www.openldap.org/faq/data/cache/978.html
[2] http://www.samse.fr/GPL/ldap_pg/HOWTO/index.html
* One really should familiarise oneself with BDB admin tools
([lib]dbX.Y-util packages in debian - do an apt-cache search berkeley)
if one is running OpenLDAP with a bdb backend - several heart attacks
averted in DIAS by proper use of db_recover [3]
[3] http://www.sleepycat.com/docs/utility/db_recover.html
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