Re: Re: ldap and mysql as backend

["Dmitry Kovalev" <mitya@seismic.geol.msu.ru>]

Hello!

----- Original Message -----
From: "Raymund Schmidt" <schmidtr@noell.de>
To: "Rajen Damani" <rdamani@timesten.com>
Cc: <openldap-software@OpenLDAP.org>
Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2001 11:28 AM
Subject: Re: Re: ldap and mysql as backend


>
>
> Rajen Damani schrieb:
>
> > Looks like you are having trouble connecting to sql backend database.
Make
> > sure your config file has following entries accurately: database,
dbname,
> > dbuser and dbpassword.
>
> thanks for your quick response,
>
> but i have set all entries. what i don't understand is, how ldap knows
where
> the database is.
> where can i set the host where the db is located.

the fact is that dbname is actually interpreted as ODBC DSN name, and in DSN
you can specify host and other things...
it is long suggested to add alternative directive like dsnname or like that,
and modify docs and samples, but this was not done so far due to lack of
resources.

WBW, Dmitry