[Fedora-directory-users] FDS and AD

[Howard Chu]

> Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2006 10:01:55 -0600
> From: Richard Megginson <rmeggins at redhat.com>

> Sergio Diaz wrote:
>> Hi Richard;
>>
>> Openldap:
>>
>>   The  *meta* backend to *slapd(8) 
>> <http://docsrv.caldera.com:8457/cgi-bin/man?mansearchword=slapd&mansection=8>* 
>> performs basic LDAP proxying with respect
>>        to a set of remote LDAP servers,  called  "targets".   The  information
>>        contained  in  these  servers can be presented as belonging to a single
>>        Directory Information Tree (DIT).
>>
>> Its possible with FDS ??
>>   
> FDS has a chaining backend which allows you to use another LDAP server 
> to store the data.

It sounds like the FDS chaining backend is similar to OpenLDAP back-ldap 
and/or the chaining overlay. In OpenLDAP back-ldap forwards a request to 
one other server (at a time; multiple servers can be configured but the 
others will only be used if the first server cannot be contacted). The 
back-meta backend is a superset of back-ldap, it can fanout single 
requests to multiple servers in parallel and aggregate the results. 
(There's also attribute mapping and DN rewriting, but those capabilities 
are no longer unique to back-meta, having been moved into the rewrite 
overlay.) With these modules you can stitch together a variety of 
heterogeneous directories into a coherent virtual directory.

>> Regards!!
>> Sergio
>>
>>   
>>
>> On Mon, 2006-10-02 at 07:25 -0600, Richard Megginson wrote:
>>> Sergio Diaz wrote:
>>>> Hi People,
>>>>
>>>> Its Possible Sync only in One Way ? 
>>>>
>>>> Users Windows AD -> FDS.
>>> No, not really.
>>>> Or the other scenario its like OpenLDAP have a Meta Backend (2 LDAPs, 
>>>> 1 AD), its possible with FDS ?
>>> It's possible. What does the meta backend do?
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>> Sergio


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