LDAP query

[Emsley, I (Iain)]

Afternoon,

 

I'm coming to LDAP for the first time as part of a project.

 

I need to set up an LDAP directory for a calendar server running on Windows which can allow us to assign calendars via user group membership. However our users are not from the same domain, going from free accounts to educational accounts.

 

I'm currently experimenting with a Windows Installer for OpenLDAP (as Cygwin kept failing to find our Berkeley DB) but are there any other open source alternatives or guides to setting up multiple domains and groups and the best practice for doing so?

 

Thanks in advance, 

 

Iain

 

Iain Emsley

 

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[Gavin Henry]

<quote who="Emsley, I \(Iain\)">

> Afternoon,
>
> I'm coming to LDAP for the first time as part of a project.
>
> I need to set up an LDAP directory for a calendar server running on
> Windows which can allow us to assign calendars via user group
> membership. However our users are not from the same domain, going from
> free accounts to educational accounts.
>
> I'm currently experimenting with a Windows Installer for OpenLDAP (as
> Cygwin kept failing to find our Berkeley DB) but are there any other
> open source alternatives or guides to setting up multiple domains and
> groups and the best practice for doing so?
>

How did you get on?

Gavin.

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[Emsley, I (Iain)]

I'm still slightly at a loss. I've managed to get openLDAP installed and
backed up by MySQL.

However I need to figure out a way of getting the relevant pieces of
data into a form LDAP is happy with. All I really need is the users
email address and the group to which they belong. However the emails can
come from any place/domain and I have to deal with it which is where I'm
coming unstuck.

As I understand it, my DN would need to something akin to dn=user,
dc=foo, dc=com whereas our server needs to read user@... and the
fact they are attached to group x, y or z . I'm wondering if I might
need a different solution.

Iain

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From: Gavin Henry [mailto:ghenry@...]
Sent: 14 March 2008 07:00
To: Emsley, I (Iain)
Cc: ldap@...
Subject: Re: [ldap] LDAP query

<quote who="Emsley, I \(Iain\)">
> Afternoon,
>
> I'm coming to LDAP for the first time as part of a project.
>
> I need to set up an LDAP directory for a calendar server running on
> Windows which can allow us to assign calendars via user group
> membership. However our users are not from the same domain, going from

> free accounts to educational accounts.
>
> I'm currently experimenting with a Windows Installer for OpenLDAP (as
> Cygwin kept failing to find our Berkeley DB) but are there any other
> open source alternatives or guides to setting up multiple domains and
> groups and the best practice for doing so?
>

How did you get on?

Gavin.

--
Kind Regards,

Gavin Henry.
Managing Director.

T [phone]
M [phone]
F [phone]
E ghenry@...

Open Source. Open Solutions(tm).

http://www.suretecsystems.com/

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