Re: sql-backend

[Adam Williams <awilliam@whitemice.org>]

> You don't have a rule to ad an attribute of type 'o'
> into your database; check ldap_attr_mappings for 'o',
> you'll notice the add procedure is set to NULL.
> Unless yu populate it with a valid procedure, you'll
> never be able to write that entry to the database.

And stored procedures aren't implemented in MySQL till version 5, so you
need to be really bloody current.  No stored procedures - no writing
back to the RDBMS.

Hard to imagine why you'd want to write to a DBMS via LDAP anyway (to be
quite honest).

> back-sql is a pain in the neck, but I wouldn't be able
> to write it anything better. 

For what it's worth I think it is fantastic.  The ability to query the
corporate CRM or groupware system via your favorite mail client (or what
not) is an absolute jaw-dropper as far as users are concerned.

The documentation was a bit of a mind-bender at first (the data models
of LDAP and RDBMS being so different), but once I got over the hump it
is all pretty elegant - and the error messages were very useful.