[Fedora-directory-users] Call for a replication project

[Richard Megginson]

Hartmut Wöhrle wrote:

>Am Montag, 5. Dezember 2005 05:05 schrieb Richard Megginson:
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>>I think Apache DS may make a great meta-directory engine, as you have
>>described.  It's probably much easier to extend it to talk to different
>>types of data stores (think JDBC) than to extend Fedora DS using C
>>plug-ins.
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>>For the specific case you described though, we did this at Netscape
>>several years ago with our Peoplesoft HR database, using PerLDAP.  We
>>would take a dump of the database, parse it with perl, and use perldap
>>to send the LDAP operations to the DS.  No need for an intermediate LDIF
>>file.  You may be able to do the same with an Apache DS solution, if it
>>can connect directly to SAP using JDBC or something like that.
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>Oh interesting. Is this perldap available?
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Yes.  It is included with Fedora DS.  See clients/orgchart/bin/org and 
slapd-hostname/ns-newpwpolicy.pl for some usage.

Also, ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/directory/tools/ has some 
scripts we used to use at Netscape for pushing the peoplesoft data into 
the DS.

>Could also be a starting point for a replication. Just connect to localhost 
>ApacheDS  and hand it over as in the replication.
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>CU
>Hartmut
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