[Fedora-directory-users] Directory Express...customize? separate/relocate?

[Richard Megginson]

Jim Hogan wrote:

> I have been looking at Directory Express pages on our new setup.  Very 
> nice!  I have a few questions:
>
> I'll need to make a few schema extensions for some attributes that 
> will be set on a do-it-yourself basis (using Directory Express, I 
> hope).  Is there any sort of guide to customizing Directory Express in 
> such a way that changes will be preserved during future upgrades?  
> I've rummaged aound in /var/opt/fedora-ds/clients/dsgw to get a sense 
> of the layout, but didn't know if there was a systematic guide of sorts.

http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/dir-server/pdf/ds71gwcust.pdf

>
> (I could probably figure this next one out with more rummaging, but 
> one of you might provide a quick "Don't even bother!" answer)...
>
> Is it feasible to move/separate the Directory Express components so 
> that they could run on a server separate from the admin server?   What 
> I have in place is an intranet server running under PubCookie.  My 
> thought is to put "DE" under this existing PubCookie regime and take 
> advantage of stuff like REMOTE_USER vars.  Just not sure if that is 
> doable.  I also started to look at moving the Fedora-DS httpd.worker 
> under PubCookie, but that would seem  more dubious.

I assume PubCookie is some sort of SSO thing?  The DE stuff uses it's 
own cookie scheme - you'd probably have to hack the source code.

>
> Thanks!
>
> Jim
>
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