Hartmut W?hrle wrote: >Am Montag, 5. Dezember 2005 05:05 schrieb Richard Megginson: > > >>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. >> >>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. >> >> >> >Oh interesting. Is this perldap available? > > 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. > >CU >Hartmut > > > > -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/x-pkcs7-signature Size: 3178 bytes Desc: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature Url : http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/389-users/attachments/20051205/94a0fb08/attachment.bin
