Andrzej Jan Taramina wrote: > Hallvard: > >> If nobody has mentioned it yet - I hope you are aware of various LDAP >> browser/editors which can make this a bit easier. phpLDAPadmin, ldapvi, >> etc. Some ar listed here: >> http://www.openldap.org/faq/data/cache/271.html > > Yup....I use the command line utilities (ldapsearch/add/modify) a lot with some routines that generate appropriate ldif > files from raw XML. I also have found luma to be quite handy as a GUI-based LDAP viewer/editor. Even managed to get it > set up so that I can walk and modify the cn=config entries, including schemas. > >> There are LDAP tools that make editing LDAP entries easier - > > Yup...like XSLT and XQuery! ;-) > >> It's what slapd considers a "database" and which you configure as a >> "database" in slapd.conf. A slapd "database" is an instance of a >> backend, and a backend is a module which can store/provide LDAP data for >> slapd. > > Then the term "database" is being misused rather badly, IMO. They are just ldif-formatted flat files. > At the risk of sparking a semantic war, a database is simply a collection of records. How they are formatted or stored is an implementation detail. -- Russell A. Jackson <raj@csub.edu> Network Analyst California State University, Bakersfield Q: How many mathematicians does it take to screw in a lightbulb? A: One. He gives it to six Californians, thereby reducing the problem to the earlier joke.
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