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Are there any good documentation sites or books out there
for adding LDAP support to a program? The ldap(3) man page is pretty sparse.
I’ve been told that basically studying the OpenLDAP source itself is the
best way to figure it out, but I’m hoping there’s something better. I have only very rudimentary knowledge of LDAP in general.
Almost all of my exposure to OpenLDAP was through a helper library that did a
lot of work for me, but that was at a previous job. This is for an open source
project. The application to be updated already has support to get
key-value pairs from SQL/ODBC and Sleepycat DB sources, and I have a request to
include support for LDAP. Essentially in the application I am given an email
recipient and I need to get from the database a piece of detail I need to
append to that outgoing mail. There’s no standard schema for this (yet;
it’s been suggested we create one through the IETF), so I will need to
allow administrators to specify which attributes to request. Any helpful pointers would be appreciated. Happy holidays, -MSK |