Re: Simple LDAP service

[Allen Reese <allen@driversoft.com>]

As far as storing config info in an LDAP server, I have looked at it, it
can be done, but LDAP's schema tends to be a little too restrictive.

There is another protocol out there that is specifically for storing
configuration info of apps, it's called ACAP.  IMAP clients use this to
store their config info.  CMU has an experimental ACAP server.  You could
have the ACAP server spawned by inetd when the client connects to that
port of your server, then it would answer all requests and be killed when
the connection was closed.  an ACAP server has a lot less overhead then
slapd does, mainly because it is still alpha, and not completely
implemented. ;)

search www.google.com for ACAP and you should run across the CMU pages.
or you can search for cyrus.  the acap server is part of the cyrus-imap
package.

Allen Reese
Senior Software Engineer
Driversoft, Inc.
allen@driversoft.com
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On Tue, 21 Dec 1999, International Man of Mystery wrote:

> 
> I'm working on a project to design a new configuration management system
> for Linux and we want to use LDAP access to manage the configuration
> store.  It's still in the early stages of planning, but the idea is
> generate application-native configuration files from a direcotry.  We
> would like to be able to use the standard LDAP routines to do this.
> 
> However, there are a number of cases where we don't want to run a
> full-fledged slapd; the directory information needs only be accessible to
> update config files, and we don't want to be tied to running a TCP/IP
> daemon.  Does anyone know of anything to do with this?  It's possible,
> although less than desirable, that we just start slapd, pull the
> configuration information, and then shut it down.
> 
> I guess in short what we want is a very simple, non-caching, exclusively
> locked 'mini-slapd' or just a library which wraps the LDAP function calls
> to work directly with the DB files.
> 
> Does anyone know of anything like this?
> 
> Wil
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