On Wed, 4 Jun 2003, Ben Johns wrote: > I'm in the process of trying to develop a centralised user directory to be > used by a number of e-smith servers. What I need to know or find out is > there any method of 'easily' updating all of E-Smith's user accounts via > LDAP? The only way that I can think of is to write my own perl script > making heavy use of the Net::LDAP modules, and checking the directory > often for new/modified/deleted user accounts, while running the > appropriate E-Smith DB commands.
If you do that, you run into the "two bosses" problem. Has a record been deleted from LDAP, or added to the accounts DB by the manager, or vice-versa? Do you have any need to add/delete records in LDAP other than by the manager? The manager already keeps LDAP and accounts db records in synchrony. As you've surmised, if you allow some other system to manipulate LDAP data, then you will need to poll LDAP to detect changes, because LDAP (AFAIK) doesn't have a change notification system. -- Charlie Brady [EMAIL PROTECTED] Lead Product Developer Network Server Solutions Group Mitel Networks Corporation http://www.mitel.com/smallbusiness Phone: +1 (613) 592 5660 or 592 2122 Fax: +1 (613) 592 1175 -- Please report bugs to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] (only) to discuss security issues Support for registered customers and partners to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Searchable archive at http://www.mail-archive.com/devinfo%40lists.e-smith.org
