[Freeipa-devel] Redesigning LDAP code

[Rob Crittenden]

Petr Viktorin wrote:
> We had a small discussion off-list about how we want IPA's LDAP handling
> to look in the future.
> To continue the discussion publicly I've summarized the results and
> added some of my own ideas to a page.
> John gets credit for the overview (the mistakes & WTFs are mine).
>
> The text is on http://freeipa.org/page/V3/LDAP_code, and echoed below.
>
>

IIRC some of the the python-ldap code is used b/c ldap2 may require a 
configuration to be set up prior to working. That is one of the nice 
things about the IPAdmin interface, it is much easier to create 
connections to other hosts.

rob