Re: LDAP w/mysql as backend

[Buchan Milne <bgmilne@staff.telkomsa.net>]

On Tuesday, 9 February 2010 10:59:04 Radosław Antoniuk wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I need a pointer please.
> I need to configure an LDAP server that presents (only read!) data from a
> mysql database.

Assuming you are otherwise familiar with OpenLDAP, I would start with:
-man slapd-sql
-see the contents of servers/slapd/back-sql/rdbms_depend/mysql in the source 
tarball
-see tests/scripts/sql-* in the source tarball

If not, you should probably read through at lest the quick start part of the 
admin guide before you get on to the back-sql bits.

> I have found some nice article for ndb configuration but I think that's not
> what I need, because this scenario is bi-directional, i.e.
> It assumes a clean mysql database and r/w access via LDAP that uses mysql
>  as backend per say.

ro or rw is purely up to access controls (on the database user as which 
OpenLDAP access the mysql db).

> What I want to do is to treat LDAP just as an "interface" to mysql database
> (or even one table).
> Can anybody point me to a good direction of reading?

Regards,
Buchan