Re: ldap

[Lawrence Walton <lawrence@the-penguin.otak-k.com>]

On Wed, May 05, 1999 at 11:34:03AM -0500, Craig Hancock wrote:
> Lawrence Walton wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, May 05, 1999 at 10:51:14AM -0500, Craig Hancock wrote:
> > Not sure you can do that; Openldap uses a custom binary database, it uses the .ldif format to
> > import data.
> >
> > >
> > > When using ldapadd I want to know would it be eaiser to add all of my stuff with
> > > MySQL and then have ldap read from that databse
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Ben Collins wrote:
> > >
> > > > On Tue, May 04, 1999 at 09:44:45AM -0500, Craig Hancock wrote:
> > > > > Hello all I am starting a ldap server on my machine and I am curious the
> > > > > machine that is ruunning the server is it neccesary to run a databse for
> > > > > that machine I ma configuring the server and adding the entries all by
> > > > > hand and I want to know what ourthe advantages of having a database for
> > > > > ldap well ion actual atabse then by entering or configuring the the ldap
> > > > > databse by hand
> > > >
> > > > LDAP is a database. What exactly do you mean by "adding the entries by
> > > > hand" ?
> > > >
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> OK so open ldap inn itself is a databse then I presume

More and less yes, think of it being in it's most simple form, Yellow pages, in it's more complicated form
hierarchical based directory, that allows for objects, and athenitication.

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