Re: LDAP & Databases ?

[David J N Begley <david@avarice.nepean.uws.edu.au>]

On Thu, 11 Nov 1999, John P. Looney wrote:

> Hi, I'm new to playing with LDAP, so excuse the ignorance...but can
> OpenLDAP be setup to use an SQL database ? I'd like to be able to store
> all the information there in flat tables, so some of our other
> SQL/web-based software can modify it from then on.

In theory LDAP information can be stored in an SQL database, but this requires
an appropriate backend for OpenLDAP to direct the information to the database
(instead of to dbm files, a shell backend, or whatever).

At present, however, OpenLDAP does not come with such a backend.


dave