Re: MS AD <-> OpenLDAP

[Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com>]

marcelo.xavier@caixa.gov.br wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I’m developing a MS Active Directory plug-in to replicate users and
> passwords to OpenLDAP
>
> The main objective is improve migration from MS AD to OpenLDAP
>
> Have anyone interest on this?

Yes, absolutely.

> This project can make part off OpenLdap solution or not?

Sure.

I don't believe you need to write a special plugin to retrieve passwords from 
AD; MS already has a password sync plugin.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb463208.aspx

All that's needed is to write a small module for slapd that reads these sync 
messages.
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