kiran madala wrote: > But isn't it how the fedora ds does the AD sync?. I mean can I just write the script to connect to AD directly and do ldapsearch for updates? Yes. The thing is that Fedora DS will not automatically send changes to a database. You'd have to write a plugin for that. It's much simpler to just script it - most scripting languages have ODBC/SQL support as well as LDAP support. > Alternatively can I do a script to search for the user against his/her group from the updates obtained by Fedora-ds from AD? I'm not sure what you mean by "against his/her group". > IF so what are the docs and packages i should be looking at? > > Thanks in advance > ---------------------------------------- > >> Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2008 10:40:19 -0700 >> From: rmeggins at redhat.com >> To: fedora-directory-users at redhat.com >> Subject: Re: Windows Active Directory sync Help! >> >> kiran madala wrote: >> >>> Thank you the sync works fine. My actual task is to store the AD users and groups in our company database through the fedora-ds. I was wondering if this is possible, >>> >>> Like AD-->FDS-->Own database >>> >>> IS this a possibility?. If it is then how would I do it? >>> >>> >> The usual way to do this is to write a script to use ldapsearch to pull >> changes from Fedora DS and write them to your database. >> > > _________________________________________________________________ > Introducing the City @ Live! Take a tour! > http://getyourliveid.ca/?icid=LIVEIDENCA006 > > -- > Fedora-directory-users mailing list > Fedora-directory-users at redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-directory-users > -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/x-pkcs7-signature Size: 3245 bytes Desc: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature Url : http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/389-users/attachments/20080110/d60bb507/attachment.bin