title: Federated Directories link: https://onemoretech.wordpress.com/2005/01/16/federated-directories/ author: lembobro description: post_id: 752 created: 2005/01/16 15:43:00 created_gmt: 2005/01/16 15:43:00 comment_status: open post_name: federated-directories status: publish post_type: post

Federated Directories

The nice thing about finally getting some help in operating the LDAP environment is that I can restart some long dormant LDAP related research projects, like designing an enterprise configuration that uses OpenLDAP. One idea I have is to try using the meta backend to provide an aggregated view of our Active Directory and regional Notes directories. This would result in a “federated” directory infrastructure that gets administered at the local level. Basically, the meta backend would do all the translation for things like differing attribute names and tree structures so that the actual directory holding the data would not matter to the end user (or consumer application). It’s going to take some time to get it right, but from what I’ve read in the OpenLDAP doc and on the mail lists it should be more than doable. The labor intensive part will be in creating the schema files to support all those different directories, since the native schemae are not in OpenLDAP schema format. The mapping part should not be too difficult, I’ve already documented most of it though, so its just a matter of making the time to get it done.

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